The OP was suggesting that only someone who had worked at Oracle could solve the problem. At least you are saying that someone who "has it" might have a chance.

The OP was suggesting that only someone who had worked at Oracle could solve the problem. At least you are saying that someone who "has it" might have a chance. The issue of whether startups would fund it is a different question. Quite clearly the performance of Ruby is not in fact a huge problem for most people, and we haven't had a huge organisation that could fund stuff in the way, say, Facebook has with PHP. I haven't looked at Ruby's GC, but I am guessing it was written by one person originally, and that could be done again. The poster at the top said it was simple. Its a big problem but as I said, its not a perfect solution needed just a better one.