James Iry

Some people when faced with a problem think, I know, I'll use distributed computing. Now they have n^2 problems. Engineering manager @Stripe

[James Iry @jamesiry]

Useless but also somehow vital fact: 2/22/2022 is going to be a Tuesday

[James Iry @jamesiry]

Useless but also somehow vital fact: 2/22/2022 is going to be a Tuesday

[James Iry @jamesiry]

@nickhoward Worth every penny and you can often pick them up used. I got mine from https://t.co/PctGkDbEtr

[James Iry @jamesiry]

Dunning-Kruger? I don't know what that is, but I bet I'd be really good at it.

[James Iry @jamesiry]

My team at Stripe is working on an experimental ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby and we’ve moved our development to open source. https://t.co/Bemnr3TsI7

[Shadowhunter @manisha72617183]

Schrödinger's Dumpster!

[James Iry @jamesiry]

My wife caught a neighbor peeping through the window at her!

[James Iry @jamesiry]

@nikhilbarthwal @pvsukale @patrickc As for for creating a new language that would mean replacing not only the VM but also all the development tools we use on our Ruby, like linters and editors. That would greatly extend to our “time to value”

[James Iry @jamesiry]

@nikhilbarthwal @pvsukale @patrickc It also allows us to release our compiler gradually. If there’s some Ruby we don’t compile correctly or efficiently we can just let the interpreter run it until we do.

[James Iry @jamesiry]

@nikhilbarthwal @pvsukale @patrickc Not quite. We’re not replacing the MRI VM. What we’re doing is compiling Ruby code into native code and registering it with the VM. The VM and our compiled code interact via the MRI’s FFI mechanism

[James Iry @jamesiry]

@cperciva @colemurray @patrickc Sorry, I can't say publicly what percent of latency is attributable to what cause, but I can say given how critical purchase flows are to our customers, every aspect of latency is worth our attention. Want to know more? We're hiring :)

[Simon Pampena @mathemaniac]

Mathematical Bumper Sticker

[James Iry @jamesiry]

@JorgeO We're still a less than 1 pizza team working on the compiler. Want some pizza, Jorge?

[James Iry @jamesiry]

@dbreunig @patrickc You got it! For two main reasons. The first is that Sorbet is the "front end" of our compiler (the parser and semantic analyzer+typer). The second is that many of the compiler's optimizations depend on the static type information that Sorbet provides.

[James Iry @jamesiry]

@DavidjMarkey @patrickc Keep your eye on https://t.co/8z09wEuysE . We plan to open source the compiler as an extension to our Ruby type checker.

[James Iry @jamesiry]

@baedert @patrickc Keep your eye on https://t.co/8z09wEuysE . We plan to open source the compiler as an extension to our Ruby type checker.

[James Iry @jamesiry]

@iamwhoisme @patrickc Keep your eye on https://t.co/8z09wEuysE . We plan to open source the compiler as an extension to our Ruby type checker.

[James Iry @jamesiry]

@dbreunig @patrickc Keep your eye on https://t.co/8z09wEuysE . We plan to open source the compiler as an extension to our Ruby type checker.

[James Iry @jamesiry]

@ilaguiar @patrickc Keep your eye on https://t.co/8z09wEuysE . We plan to open source the compiler as an extension to our Ruby type checker.