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  1. Bug #307462
  2. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 307462

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Lucas Nussbaum (lucas) wrote : Re: [Bug 307462] Re: ruby is slow because of --enable-pthreads

On 10/06/10 at 21:22 -0000, Mark Carey wrote:
> Lucas Nussbaum wrote on 2010-04-27:
> > On the other hand, lots of people are not that unhappy with the state of
> > Ruby in Debian/Ubuntu.
>
> Argument from silence doesn't really hold much weight. The pthreads
> issue is longstanding known issue in the ruby community. The refusal of
> ubuntu to address it caused many ubuntu users to go build our own ruby,
> which I've done on any system where I cared about ruby performance for
> the last 3 years or so. I'm only speaking up now because I'm trying to
> be a better community member, what ever that means.
>
> > It would be better if the energy spent on REE would be spent on
> > improving Ruby 1.8 or 1.9... But anyway.
>
> Actually all of the patches were submitted back upstream, but ruby-core
> are very slow to move.

Could you point to the redmine bugs describing the patches?
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