I have seen some rumblings about Ruby 1.9 being almost ready (here’s hoping that it turns out better than this years OS upgrades) and faster than before. I haven’t looked at 1.9 since I ran some of my early benchmarks.
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How To Start Playing With Ruby 1.9 Right Now!
November 27, 2007 at 11:52 pm
Have you checked out JRuby? There’s a lot of performance improvement in the latest version.
November 28, 2007 at 12:02 am
No, I haven’t. I’ve really never been a Java person, so I’ve stayed away from JRuby. I’ll add it my list of things try add to my next round of performance fiddling.