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		bluedino on March 22, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Ruby? I thought installing an SSD would speed up development on my local system in Rails 3 - it barely changed a thing. It does make things like tests etc run way, way faster though.

vidarh on March 22, 2013 [–]

Yeah, that's at least in part because of the stat()/lstat()-blowup.

After the first run most of the stat data will be cached in-memory anyway, but tens of thousands of unnecessary system calls hurts even with the actual data in memory...

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