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The sooner? ruby 1.9 is around for more than a year??? now. 1.8 is still the standard in ubuntu and about everywhere else. With respect to performance boost: S
by xtho 16y ago
The sooner? ruby 1.9 is around for more than a year??? now. 1.8 is still the standard in ubuntu and about everywhere else.
With respect to performance boost: Startup time didn't improve. And IIRC the same is true for certain string operations. Both are important in the field where ruby originated and where I personally still find it most useful -- scripting or rather as perl-replacement.
- alttab 16y agoWe use ruby at Spiceworks and are internally switching to 1.9.1. We are doing it for performance as well as internationalisation. While the encoding was an issue upfront (and we have guys converting our app from 1.8.6 as their primary focus), we do the edge-UTF8 approach, and we've updated a lot of the gems to 1.9 without waiting for others.
- wallywalrus 16y agoGet back to work, Scottie.