Optimizing Ruby Path Methods
by weaksauce on 4/18/2026, 8:42:29 PM
https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/04/18/faster-paths.html
Comments
by: vidarh
> More importantly, on CI systems it’s relatively common to check out code using git, and git doesn’t care about mtime<p>git doesn't care about mtime, but git maintains trees whose hash changes if any constituent part of the tree changes. It'd seem tempting to check for a .git and if present use the git tree to determine whether to invalidate the cache.
4/18/2026, 10:12:08 PM
by: nixpulvis
Would this be possible to mainline into ruby in some way?
4/18/2026, 9:58:30 PM
by: blinkbat
don't take this the wrong way, but -- people still use ruby?
4/18/2026, 9:58:25 PM