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Transcript

  1. Deoptimization: How YJIT Speeds Up Ruby by Slowing Down @k0kubun

    / RubyKaigi 2025

  2. @k0kubun

  3. @k0kubun Z

  4. None

  5. We’re hiring https://candidate.shopify.com/form/ruby-kaigi-2025

  6. None

  7. YJIT

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  9. https://railsatscale.com/2025-01-10-yjit-3-4-even-faster-and-more-memory-ef fi cient/

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  12. Deoptimization

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  14. Deoptimization What if you can “slow down” Ruby at any

    time? You can speculatively optimize Ruby and invalidate it later

  15. Playing with Deoptimization Build Ruby with: ./con fi gure --enable-yjit=dev

    Run Ruby with: ruby --yjit-call-threshold=1 --yjit-dump-disasm

  16. Playing with Deoptimization

  17. None

  18. YJIT Deoptimization

  19. Code Patching

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  24. Rewrite

  25. Rewrite Jump

  26. Global Invalidation

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  30. Ruby 3.4’s New YJIT Deoptimization

  31. Invalidation on Escaped Locals

  32. ?

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  35. Invalidation on Singleton Classes

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  40. Singleton Class Invalidation

  41. Lazy Frame Push

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  45. Lazy Frame Push

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  50. YJIT-only Ruby Methods

  51. Array#each

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  59. Primitive.attr! :c_trace

  60. Conclusion Deoptimization enables speculative optimizations with lazy invalidation Ruby 3.4

    YJIT optimizes method calls and local variables using deoptimization