Issue #22092 has been updated by nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga). Backport changed from 3.3: REQUIRED, 3.4: REQUIRED, 4.0: DONE to 3.3: REQUIRED, 3.4: DONE, 4.0: DONE ruby_3_4: merged the backport PR: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/17235 ---------------------------------------- Bug #22092: `Array#sum` takes slow path, does not perform compensated summation of Float elements when init argument is a Float https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/22092#change-117800 * Author: georgeclaghorn (George Claghorn) * Status: Closed * ruby -v: ruby 4.0.1 (2026-01-13 revision e04267a14b) +PRISM [arm64-darwin24] * Backport: 3.3: REQUIRED, 3.4: DONE, 4.0: DONE ---------------------------------------- ``` % time ruby -e 'puts Array.new(1_000_000_000, 0.1).sum' 100000000.0 ruby -e 'puts Array.new(1_000_000_000, 0.1).sum' 2.67s user 2.02s system 71% cpu 6.577 total % time ruby -e 'puts Array.new(1_000_000_000, 0.1).sum(0.0)' 99999998.74541782 ruby -e 'puts Array.new(1_000_000_000, 0.1).sum(0.0)' 22.72s user 1.80s system 96% cpu 25.332 total ``` Both the fast path and compensated summation are undocumented implementation details as far as I know, but this appears to be a possible oversight. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/