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Re:Fixing Threads in Ruby 1.8: A 2-10x performance boost by FooBarWidget on Monday May 18, 2009 @03:50PM (#615558)
Library compatibility. Many libraries are still not compatible with 1.9. It's good to have interim improvements for 1.8 until the ecosystem has caught up with 1.9, because 1.8 is what actually powers production systems today.
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Re:Fixing Threads in Ruby 1.8: A 2-10x performance boost by rbanffy on Monday May 18, 2009 @06:43PM (#615845)
"Many libraries are still not compatible with 1.9"

It's not likely they will remain so for very long

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Re:Fixing Threads in Ruby 1.8: A 2-10x performance boost by grandalf on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @04:50AM (#616472)
I hope you're right. But I'd rather that the move to 1.9 be based on its merits as enhancements to the language rather than on the lack (in 1.8) of the sorts of optimizations that were made in the article.
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Re:Fixing Threads in Ruby 1.8: A 2-10x performance boost by rbanffy on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @12:15PM (#617043)
I would gladly accept a major library breakage for proper multi-processor support in Python. A better implementation is a significant enhancement.
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