Fast Activesupport

This project is built for FUN and not tested in production environment yet. It's been almost 7 years since I stopped writing C therefore these implementations may not be best ones in terms of performance and code quality. Also the behvaiours of the implementations may vary even especially for the error cases like passing the wrong type of argument.

ActiveSupport implemented in C from scratch for speeding it up.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'fast_activesupport'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install fast_activesupport

Usage

This gem overrides original ActiveSupport and changes it's methods with the ones written in C. The only thing you have to do is, placing this gem after activesupport or rails in your Gemfile.

The list of improved modules/methods

Here is the list of modules and their methods migrated from Ruby to C along with performance improvements.

• SecurityUtils
  • ::secure_compare (~4 times faster)
  • ::fixed_length_secure_compare (~6.5 times faster)

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/meinac/fast_activesupport.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.