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Re:Ruby 2.1.0 preview1 released by drakaal on Monday September 23, 2013 @02:30AM (#6429434)
Non-Blocking IO with out raising an exception is a notable new feature. The Improvements to Garbage Collection is also pretty huge.

The 128bit number support is cool, I mean if you want to work with Quadruple-precision floating-point numbers... I know I do.

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Re:Ruby 2.1.0 preview1 released by topac on Monday September 23, 2013 @03:45AM (#6429561)
Where do you find out about the non-blocking io?
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Re:Ruby 2.1.0 preview1 released by MrBra on Monday September 23, 2013 @09:45AM (#6430791)
I suppose he refers to this...

* IO

  * extended methods:

    * IO#seek supports SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE as whence.

    * IO#seek accepts symbols (:CUR, :END, :SET, :DATA, :HOLE) for 2nd argument.

    * IO#read_nonblock accepts optional `exception: false` to return symbols

    * IO#write_nonblock accepts optional `exception: false` to return symbols
see https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/v2_1_0_preview1/NEWS
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