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Ruby 1.9.1 Released

Posted by kdawson on from the yet-another-gem dept.

Janwedekind writes "Yuki Sonoda yesterday announced the release of Ruby 1.9.1 (Ruby Inside coverage with lots of links). The VM of Ruby 1.9, formerly known as YARV, was initiated by Koichi Sasada and has been in the making for quite some time. Ruby's creator Yukihiro Matsumoto has already presented many of the upcoming features in his keynote at RubyConf 2007. Most notably, Ruby 1.9 now supports native threads and an implementation of fibers. A lot of work also went into encoding awareness of strings. The 1.9.1 version is said to be twice as fast as the stable 1.8.7. It will take some time though until the majority of existing Ruby extensions get ported to 1.9."

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  1. Re:Twice as fast... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They don't need to be compettive on performance. They just need to improve performance to "barely tolerable slow" as opposed to "intolerably slow".

  2. What about C? by jonaskoelker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Python is skiing and ruby is snow boarding.

    I guess that makes C drunk driving. Much faster and more crash-prone.

    --*car_analogy_quota("jonaskoelker");