Rails and Merb Merge: Performance (Part 2 of 6)

The next significant improvement that we hoped to bring to Rails from Merb was faster performance. Because Merb came after Rails, we had the luxury of knowing which parts of Rails were used most often and optimizing performance for those parts. For Rails 3, we wanted to take the performance optimizations in Merb and bring them over to Rails. In this post, I’ll talk about just a few of the performa