Its great to see Ruby so much faster with 1.9 because 1.8 speed was such a stumbling block in data intensive stuff that I pushed towards it. However don't coun

Its great to see Ruby so much faster with 1.9 because 1.8 speed was such a stumbling block in data intensive stuff that I pushed towards it. However don't count your chickens just yet with regards to Ruby 1.9 being "Perl-beating" ;-) Don't you think its odd that Perl 5.10.0 sits only just above Ruby 1.8.7 in the current alioth shootout? Quick look at the tests and I can see a problem with a known 5.10.0 speed issue bug. Fixing this in a quick local test here makes all the difference ;-)