Where Twitter does use Ruby, it deploys the code on a custom, highly optimized version of the Ruby runtime designed to manage memory more efficiently when executing long-running processes.

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Project Cafe is said to be built with an IBM custom IBM PowerPC with three cores, an ATI-built GPU, and at least 512MB in memory.

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