Locales? Timezones? Unicode? There's a lot of stuff that is there to be used from time to time, does not mean it hits your processor cache often. BTW, libruby-

Locales? Timezones? Unicode? There's a lot of stuff that is there to be used from time to time, does not mean it hits your processor cache often. BTW, libruby-2.3 is 2,5M, just the shared object file, and it tries to use all aforementioned stuff from the underlying UNIX.