There are huge performance improvements in Ruby 2.1.0 as compared to Ruby 2.0.0, I have seen as much as a 2x improvement in real world settings, and they have t

There are huge performance improvements in Ruby 2.1.0 as compared to Ruby 2.0.0, I have seen as much as a 2x improvement in real world settings, and they have to with Ruby now having a generational garbage collector: http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/12/ruby21 http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/12/ruby21 I don't think this current patch release itself contains much performance fixes.