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Ruby is dynamically typed and runs in a source-code interpreter, and it conveniently supports metaprogramming as well as the procedural and functional paradigms. I won’t go into details of Ruby syntax ...

In other words, every place where Ruby code makes a method call, we keep a slot in memory for the most recent method we looked up. In another quirk of fate, it turns out most calls are “monomorphic” ( ...