Unlocking Ractors: generic instance variables | byroot’s blog

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In two previous posts, I explained that one of the big blockers for Ractors’ viability is that while they’re supposed to run fully in parallel, in many cases, they’d perform worse than a single thread because there were numerous codepaths in the Ruby virtual machine and runtime that were still.
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