From: Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscription@...>
Date: 2008-01-09T21:38:49+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] JRuby 1.1 RC 1 Released

Sander Land wrote:
> Ruby 1.8 from source (gcc4.1 -O3) : 294.42   (what!?, the apt-get
> version is _that_ bad?)
>   

If the packager doesn't pay attention to the compile options, it can be.
On Gentoo, compiling without pthread (USE=-threads) gave me at least a 
x10 (not a typo) speedup in XML parsing and a modest +7% average speedup 
on one complex Rails app (measured by the time spent running the test 
suite).

Lionel