Sluggish Ubuntu Ruby package

[Declan McGrath]

Hi folks,

Just came across this piece of news which suggests that the Ubuntu Ruby
packages might be up to twice as slow as freshly built Ruby
http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/12/10/reflections-on-the-ruby-shootout

This is just one guys benchmark but I thought it might be of interest.

Here are is the main quote:
"The really big, flashing warning though is what happens when you install Ruby
through apt-get. Compiling from source gives you double the speed, according
to these tests. I expected a 10/20% increase, not 100%. The gist of it is
that prepackaged Ruby is compiled using the option enable-pthreads and there
is the whole issue of shared vs static libraries. But whatever the reason,
this is a significant difference."

Regards,
Dec