From: Philip Rhoades Date: 2010-11-24T08:44:17+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8 vs 1.9 On 2010-11-24 09:23, Ryan Davis wrote: > > 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. Who do I talk to get 1.9 RPMs produced for Fedora? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil@pricom.com.au