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That's the magic of YJIT, and what I'll describe in the rest of Chapter 4. YJIT uses a "wait-and-see" approach, and often defers compilation of the block/function until the actual …

> Idiomatic Ruby uses blocks for loop bodies Yes that's something I want to dig into and explore in this chapter... when exactly does Ruby's JIT compiler activate and optimize our …

What a lovely comment - thank you!

I tried that while researching the article, but found the call to "puts" doesn't link without the standard library code. And without a "puts" or similar call to produce output LLVM…

(author here) ...FYI I actually learned assembly language for the first time back in the 1970s and 80s using a 6809 inside a Radio Shack "Color Computer." I was super-fun at the ti…

Thanks a lot. I'm looking forward to writing it, I think it will be interesting.

Thanks! Glad to hear you made it to the bottom :) I always worry that I tend to write on and on for too long.

Thank you! Knowing that people enjoy reading this sort of thing makes it worthwhile.

Thanks everyone for the kind comments, and for taking the time to read this stuff :)

Yes, good point. Rails has a lot of conventions like this - that "first" implies ordering by primary key (by default). I just imagine that most Rails developers don't think about s…

Oh absolutely. I thought about saying that, and just ran out of energy before posting the article this morning. The reason I used this particular SQL statement as an example is tha…

By the way, I used a simple query on purpose to keep things simple for readers (and for me, the author!). By using such a simple SQL statement I was able to avoid complex optimizat…

This sounds fascinating - I read Codd's original paper on relational algebra for my last post ( http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf ). ... and this notation almost…

Thanks :) Yea indexes are where some of the real "magic" of database servers happens. It will be fun to write that up...

I discuss circular references and how CPython handles them a bit in my followup post: http://patshaughnessy.net/2013/10/30/generational-gc-in-pyth...

Another great post, Daniel... keep 'em coming!

I agree with the other commenters - RailsApps is a fantastic resource for the community. It's a great way to have a peer reviewed and curated set of high quality examples to learn …

Yup, (re)reading SICP is definitely on my list!

Awesome links - thank you!

Thanks! Yea for some reason learning how things work is often more satisfying to me than building stuff... I guess I'm more of a scientist than an engineer?

Interesting idea - thanks for the suggestion!