Chapter 1What Makes Ruby Code Fast
It’s time to optimize.
This is what I think when my Heroku dyno restarts after logging an “R14 - Memory quota exceeded” message. Or when New Relic sends me another bunch of Apdex score alerts. Or when simple pages take forever to load and the customer complains that my application is too slow. I’m sure you’ve had your own “time to optimize” moments. And every time these moments occur, we both ask exactly the same question: “What can I do to make the code faster?”
In my career as a Ruby programmer I have learned that the immediate answer to this question is often “I don’t know.” I’ll bet that’s your experience, too. After all, you thought you were writing efficient code. What we typically do then is to ...
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