On Rails — Aaron Patterson: Ractors, JIT Compilers, and Rewriting How Gems Install

In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Aaron Patterson, better known online as Tenderlove , a senior staff engineer on Shopify ’s Ruby infrastructure team and a longtime contributor to both Ruby and Rails Core. Aaron and Robby chat about how Ractors are finally bringing true multi-core parallelism to Ruby, the proposal Aaron has pitched to RubyGems.org for content addressable gems that could make bundle install dramatically faster, and the real reasons gems reach for native C extensi...