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SHRINKING RUBY HASHES

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Ruby's memory optimization efforts show that Hashes, a common object type in Ruby applications, consume a lot of memory. Although recent changes have improved their efficiency, such as transitioning to an array-based structure for smaller instances and implementing variable width allocation, there's still room for improvement in compacting memory usage.