SMRTR ProgrammingNov 6, 2025Lobsters

When Your Hash Becomes a String: Hunting a Ruby Million-to-One Memory Bug

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A Ruby FFI bug caused crashes when the garbage collector freed Hash objects that were replaced by Strings due to missing write barriers. Upgrading to FFI 1.17.0 fixes this rare timing issue.

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