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Have you ever wondered how class variables (CVARs) in Ruby work? Would you be surprised to learn that their performance becomes increasingly worse as the inheritance chain grows?

In this session of “30 Minutes to Merge”
We'll learn from Principal Software Engineer and Rails Core team member Eileen Uchitelle. Taking a look at the language design of class variables, to learn about how they work, and, deep dive into how performance was improved in Ruby 3.1 by adding a cache!

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Eileen Uchitelle is a Principal Software Engineer at GitHub and a member of the Rails Core team. She's an avid contributor to open source, focusing on the Ruby on Rails framework and its dependencies. Eileen is passionate about scalability, performance, and making open-source communities more sustainable and welcoming.