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Re:Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection: ready for production on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @09:56AM (#7553406)
Like Rubinius? Or why not JRuby?
Re:Apple releases OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 with SSL fix on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @02:11PM (#7299720)

  pkgutil --check-signature OSXUpd10.9.2.dmg
That looks nice.

I used libdispatch to prototype a server and would be great to compare with other libraries before starting the project.

libPhenom seems to have much more features, maybe even more than I need, but the documentation seems good. I will try to make another prototype with your lib.

Thanks.

libdispatch works on FreeBSD (https://wiki.freebsd.org/GCD) and on Linux (http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libdispatch-dev), but I don't know if blocks works on Linux.
How does this compare to libdispatch (https://libdispatch.macosforge.org/) in functionality and performance? I'm very interested in this.
Re:Startling new proof that Ruby sucks at scripting on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @09:18AM (#5368136)

  Running 'awk -f bogobench.awk' 100 times…
  …done.
  real         0.70
  user         0.33
  sys          0.32
  Running 'java bogobench' 100 times…
  …done.
  real        34.25
  user        38.15
  sys          6.71
  Running 'ruby bogobench.rb' 100 times…
  …done.
  real         1.11
  user         0.56
  sys          0.42
  Running 'rbx bogobench.rb' 100 times…
  …done.
  real        41.53
  user        38.42
  sys          2.82

  awk version 20070501
  java version "1.6.0_43"
  ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24 revision 39474) [x86_64-darwin12.2.0]
  rubinius 2.0.0.rc1 (1.9.3 3981b1d0 yyyy-mm-dd JI) [x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0]
The submitter is using Rubinius WIP in 1.8.7 mode vs stable and tested releases.