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It's an aside, but

> Now, usually I steer clear of FFI, and to be honest the reason is simply that it doesn’t provide the same performance as a native extension.

I usually avoid it, or in particular, gems that use it, because compilation can be such a pain. I've found it easier to build it myself and cut out the middleman of Rubygems/bundler.



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