On 08/23 10:07, Marc Espie wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 08:59:25AM -0700, Jeremy Evans wrote: > > Ruby 1.8 will be sticking around for the foreseeable future as other > > software depends on it, including amarok, subversion, and vim. > > As far as I know, ruby 1.x is very slow compared to more recent rubies. > are there people actually using those plugins ?
Correct, ruby 1.8 is slower than more recent rubies (about 1/2 the speed). However, for most of the programs that embed ruby, performance of the ruby code is probably not a bottleneck. As to whether people are actually using the functionality, I have no idea. Here's the full list of non-ruby ports that depend on ruby 1.8: audio/amarok devel/eclipse/plugins/rdt devel/subversion devel/vim-command-t editors/vim games/easyrpg textproc/gonzui www/puppet-dashboard x11/kde/bindings3 Thanks, Jeremy
