RubyConf 2021: The Talks You Might Have Missed - Shopify

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This post details the RubyConf 2021 talks relevant to Shopify's engineering efforts. Specifically, it highlights Maxime Chevalier Boisvert's talk on 'Building a New JIT Compiler Inside CRuby' which discusses YJIT, an open-source project to incrementally build a new JIT compiler inside CRuby. The talk covers YJIT's key advantages, implementation approach, and early performance results, emphasizing its objective to produce speedups on real-world software like Ruby on Rails while maintaining high compatibility and supporting the latest Ruby features. The inclusion of YJIT in Ruby 3.1 is also noted.