Yes, there are performance increases. Sasada-san gave a good talk at RubyConf this year on 2.0.0's internals and performance enhancements: http://www.confreaks.

Yes, there are performance increases. Sasada-san gave a good talk at RubyConf this year on 2.0.0's internals and performance enhancements: http://www.confreaks.com/videos/1272-rubyconf2012-implementation-details-of-ruby-2-0-vm http://www.confreaks.com/videos/1272-rubyconf2012-implementa...