Pat Shaughnessy

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Pat Shaughnessy on programming and Ruby internals, including excerpts from Ruby Under a Microscope. Latest feed post: November 2025.

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Compiling Ruby To Machine Language #Programming #Ruby #Compiler
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Nov 17, 2025
YARV's Internal Stack and Your Ruby Stack #Ruby #Programming #Dev
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Nov 10, 2025
Compiling a Call to a Block #Programming #Ruby #Compiler
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Nov 3, 2025
Parsing: How Ruby Understands Your Code #Programming #Ruby #Code
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Oct 27, 2025
Write Barriers #Programming #Ruby #Tech
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Feb 18, 2025
Using Different Size Pools #Programming #Ruby #Tech
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Feb 11, 2025
Inserting One New Element into Hashes of Varying Sizes #Programming #Ruby #Tech
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Feb 4, 2025
Updating Ruby Under a Microscope #Ruby #Programming #OpenSource
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Jan 28, 2025
LLVM IR: The Esperanto of Computer Languages #Programming #LLVM #Compiler
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Feb 19, 2022
Visiting an Abstract Syntax Tree #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #ComputerScience
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Jan 22, 2022