> I’ve been interested in speeding up allocations for quite some time. We know that calling a C function from Ruby incurs some overhead, and that the overhead

> I’ve been interested in speeding up allocations for quite some time. We know that calling a C function from Ruby incurs some overhead, and that the overhead depends on the type of parameters we pass. > it seemed quite natural to use the triple-dot forwarding syntax (...). > Unfortunately I found that using ... was quite expensive > This lead me to implement an optimization for ... . That’s some excellent yak shaving. And speaking up … in any language is good news even if allocation is not faster.