Rails - Jan 2007 - Ruby 1.9 is released, with material perfornance improvements -- why no hoopla?

Per: http://redhanded.hobix.com/cult/yarvIsRubyItIsItReallyIs.html

It surprises me that this great news has not gotten more awareness.
With a smattering of performance concerns clouding Ruby for some
observers, I would expect this material speed increase to cause broader
celebration.

Maybe it will happen later in the week, or perhaps I am missing a
subtle gotcha.

Thoughts?


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pauljdavis-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
wrote:
> 
> Per: http://redhanded.hobix.com/cult/yarvIsRubyItIsItReallyIs.html
> 
> It surprises me that this great news has not gotten more awareness.
> With a smattering of performance concerns clouding Ruby for some
> observers, I would expect this material speed increase to cause broader
> celebration.
> 
> Maybe it will happen later in the week, or perhaps I am missing a
> subtle gotcha.
> 
> Thoughts?
My understanding is that "trunk" is the main development branch and
that
1.9.1 is scheduled for release around Christmas 2007 (as described in 
the branching plan linked to in the above link) so unless you really 
like living on the bleeding edge, the incorporation of YARV into Ruby 
isn''t going to be something most users of Ruby will see for a while
yet.


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On Jan 1, 2007, at 4:47 PM, pauljdavis-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
wrote:
>
> Per: http://redhanded.hobix.com/cult/yarvIsRubyItIsItReallyIs.html
>
> It surprises me that this great news has not gotten more awareness.
> With a smattering of performance concerns clouding Ruby for some
> observers, I would expect this material speed increase to cause  
> broader
> celebration.
>
> Maybe it will happen later in the week, or perhaps I am missing a
> subtle gotcha.
>
> Thoughts?

	It is great that yarv is finally merged into ruby1.9 head. But its  
still about a year off from being a stable production worthy  
interpreter. ALso ruby 1.9 does not run rails yet. Lot''s of changes  
between 1.8.x and 1.9. 1.9 is for new features for ruby 2.0. So while  
this is great news. It doesn''t mean you can start using it for much
yet.

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