Tim Kächele quiere dar esta charla

Mechanical Sympathy, or: writing fast ruby programs

Premature optimization is the root of all evil, so the saying goes, but have you ever endured the hell that is waiting for a slow program to complete?

Let's learn how we can break with the preconceived notions of optimization, learn what modern hardware can do for us and how we can write ruby programs that work with the hardware and not against it.

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Buyer beware:

This is an enhanced version of a talk I gave last September: https://www.rug-b.de/topics/performance-it-can-t-be-an-afterthought-1022