From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2008-03-20T00:40:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2008?

On 19/03/2008, James Gray <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On Mar 19, 2008, at 12:16 AM, Chiyuan Zhang wrote:
>
>  > Is there any project ideas collected? Maybe something about Ruby 1.9,
>  > Rubinius etc.
>
>  I'm sure we can brainstorm some for you.
>

There's been some talk about the memory management - the GC.  The GC
used in 1.8 is clearly suboptimal. Running the same code under jruby
results in great cut on memory requirements and thus great performance
gain, at least for my application.

I am not sure about the status and plans for the 1.9 GC.

If you are into this kind of stuff you will likely not face too much
competition, and could make a lasting contribution to the 1.9
implementation ;-)

Thanks

Michal