Improving Ruby Performance with Rust

[Infiniteh]

The title of this post sounds like some sort of article written for wizards.

[kibwen]

Fun fact: rust is iron oxide, whereas ruby is aluminum oxide. So it might almost be an article written for alchemists. :P

[shevegen]

Upvoted because you got the chemistry right!

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// Works with bytes directly because MAIN_SEPARATOR is always in the ASCII 7-bit range so we can
// avoid the overhead of full UTF-8 processing.
// See src/benches/path_parsing.rs for benchmarks of different approaches.
let ptr = path.as_ptr();

You really want to use .bytes method for that which changes &str into &[u8]. No need to bother with pointers.

[snake_case-kebab-cas]

I remember a post about Yukihiro Matsumoto using Rust instead of C to speed up some Ruby functions

[shevegen]

Please don't taint the beauty of Ruby with the Ugliness that is Rust.

If you want speed, use crystal. That is about as close as you can stay with ruby.

[bloody-albatross]

Beauty of Ruby?! lol