From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2015-12-22T20:05:19+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:72440] Re: Ruby 2.3.0-preview2 Released

SASADA Koichi <ko1@atdot.net> wrote:
> On 2015/12/11 18:06, Eric Wong wrote:
> > SASADA Koichi <ko1@atdot.net> wrote:
> >> Please add your optimizations before RC1.
> >> (maybe Eric Wong wants to add)
> > 
> > Most I've done are pretty minor or for rarely-used corner case.
> > Not sure which are really worth mentioning and public ones are
> > already in NEWS.
> 
> Sorry, I missed your post.
> 
> Maybe you can add entries which you *WANT* to add :)

I think I added everything that is a user-visible change.

> Can you write sentences for particular topics?
> (you are absolutely better English writer than me)

I'm not sure what to write about (maybe I never know :x),
and we try to keep NEWS short.

This feels like the most boring release in many years
(not a bad thing, I guess it's a sign the implementation has
mostly matured)

Maybe:

--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -346,3 +346,6 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.
 * Borland-C is no longer supported
 
 * Haiku now stable and best effort
+
+* Numerous small optimizations throughout the core VM and stdlib to
+  reduce memory usage and improve performance a tiny amount.

I'm not sure if we should raise the expectations of users too much.
Often these optimizations are difficult or impossible to measure
in real (big) projects.