Does optimizing Ruby have diminishing returns? It doesn't have a JIT and it's all late method lookups, seems like that would be a much higher performance win, t

Does optimizing Ruby have diminishing returns? It doesn't have a JIT and it's all late method lookups, seems like that would be a much higher performance win, to remove the runtime metaprogrammed nightmare soup. I also wonder if that's even compatible with the language at all.