Joe Damato
hacker, Boundary
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Joe Damato is a hacker who focuses on the low level implications of Ruby including I/O, performance, testing, and scaling. He maintains a blog (http://timetobleed.com) where he releases code, patches to the Ruby interpreter, and his thoughts about low level systems programming. He has submitted a few patches to Ruby core, the most interesting of which is a bug-fix to the threading implementation in Ruby 1.8 and a Fibers implementation for Ruby 1.8 that he worked on with Aman Gupta. He also added libdl support to ltrace to allow tracing library functions which are linked at runtime (such as Ruby gems).
Sessions
Aman Gupta (GitHub),
Joe Damato (Boundary)
Everything in Ruby is an object.. but what is a ruby object? What does it look like? Where does it live? How is it born and when does it die?
This talk will cover the implementation of the object heap and garbage collector in Ruby 1.8, with a focus on tools and techniques to understand memory usage, find reference leaks, and improve the performance of your ruby applications.
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