From: Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists <tpo2@...>
Date: 2008-01-10T05:14:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] JRuby 1.1 RC 1 Released

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Lionel Bouton wrote:

> 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.

Erm.

> On Gentoo, compiling without pthread (USE=-threads) gave me at least a x10

You don't want to say Debian should use "-threads" and thus not allow its 
users to use the Tk library which requires "-threads"?

> (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).


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