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. -- ruby is slow because of --enable-pthreads https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307462 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs