Spinel Brings C-Level Performance to Ruby with AOT Compilation

Spinel addresses Ruby's long-standing performance bottleneck by compiling Ruby code directly to native executables, achieving 11.6x speedups over CRuby on computation-heavy workloads. The self-hosting architecture—where the compiler backend is written in Ruby and compiles itself to a native binary—demonstrates that Ruby can serve both as a practical runtime and systems programming language. This opens new possibilities for Ruby in performance-critical applications traditionally dominated by C or Go.