It’s this time of the year again where Ruby is released and everyone asks: Is it faster? You will
find out below! And if you are interested, you can compare the results to the previous installations
of this post for the years 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2021.
This christmas Ruby 3.2.0 was released, featuring improvements across the board. The YJIT just in
time compiler has been ported to Rust and can now be used on ARM machines. And variable width
allocation (VWA) has been enabled by default. Let’s see how fast Ruby got in the past year!
This is another Ruby comparison benchmark, in the tradition of 2016, 2017 and 2020. This
christmas Ruby 3.1.0 was released, featuring the brand-new YJIT just in time compiler.
Pre-liminary benchmarks showed noticeable performance benefits for HexaPDF, so let’s see
what the final version brings.
I regularly run the HexaPDF benchmarks to make sure that HexaPDF gets faster and not
slower. One of the benchmarks, the “raw_text” benchmark, always had me wondering why using TrueType
fonts was visibly slower. So I decided to investigate.
I ran some benchmarks using HexaPDF after Ruby 2.4 was released in 2016 and again after Ruby 2.5
was releasd in 2017. Since Ruby 3.0.0 was released this Christmas, I think this warrants another
round of benchmarks. And this time three different real-world benchmarks are used to evaluate
relative Ruby performance.
My static website generator webgen has been around for a long time.
Though there are now many other static website generators written in Ruby, I still maintain webgen
because some of its functionality is unique.