A recent optimization effort focused on reducing the rendering time of web views by transitioning escaping routines from Ruby to C, resulting in significant performance improvements. This initiative not only sped up HTML escaping but also decreased the number of objects on the Ruby heap, thereby accelerating garbage collection. The exploration involved utilizing the ObjectSpace module for object tracking, revealing over 600,000 Ruby objects allocated post-boot. A novel approach using a Judy Array, a highly compressed trie-like data structure, was adopted to store a large dataset of programming language tokens, which was previously overwhelming the Ruby garbage collector. By moving this dataset into native C-land, memory usage was minimized and performance was enhanced, with Judy Arrays outperforming Ruby's hash tables in lookup efficiency, especially under garbage collection pressure. Despite these advances, Ruby's garbage collection remains problematic, although future improvements, such as a proposed generational garbage collector, could offer some relief. The ongoing challenge is balancing backward compatibility with performance enhancements, as demonstrated by comparisons with more advanced Ruby implementations like Rubinius and JRuby, which already employ sophisticated garbage collection techniques.