Comment 11 for bug 307462

Honestly, I think it is better to have a product that is missing functionality (especially since the GUI tookit feature is provided through 3rd party [i.e. not upstream ruby] implementations of Qt and GTK+ bindings) than a product that is so incredibly slow that anyone who wishes to use it in sensible matter is kind of forced to build it from source without pthreads.

Since one of Ruby's primary use cases is Rails it is all the more important to have it work at sensible speed (promoting the Ubuntu server stack and all).