Comment 15 for bug 307462

According to Matz, this is no longer an issue in Ruby 1.8.7

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/23583

yet I'm still seeing performance improvements in general with the ruby benchmark suite when applying the configure.in patch from timetobleed.com against 1.8.7 from Karmic.