From: flebber <flebber.crue@...>
Date: 2010-11-24T19:35:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8 vs 1.9

On Nov 24, 10:44 am, Philip Rhoades <p...@pricom.com.au> wrote:
> 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.
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> Philip Rhoades
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wiki is a start for fedora they have ruby packages in the
repositories.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Ruby_1.9.1

or build it...simple on linux here is a guide for fedora

http://biztech.sheprador.com/?p=81