There are a lot of projects aiming to fix that, but yes, YARV is a great improvement on the speed front. Synthetic benchmarks being what they are, it looks prom

There are a lot of projects aiming to fix that, but yes, YARV is a great improvement on the speed front. Synthetic benchmarks being what they are, it looks promising: http://rubychan.de/share/yarv_speedups.html http://rubychan.de/share/yarv_speedups.html