From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2010-11-24T07:23:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8 vs 1.9


On Nov 23, 2010, at 13:25 , Chuck Remes wrote:

> I use 1.9.2p0 daily and find it to be extremely stable and fast. I would say the biggest reason to use it is to get a performance boost. Most of your code from 1.8 will "just work."  My code sees a 2-5x speedup on 1.9.2 versus 1.8.7.

That's really variable and depends on what you're doing.

All of my text processing code needed reworking, and text processing is (was?) noticeably slower in ruby 1.9 than it is in 1.8.