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kingfishr | 13 years ago

I believe this also includes the bitmap marking GC changes which will make the GC copy-on-write friendly. This is pretty important for a lot of folks running Ruby web servers.

See, for example:

http://patshaughnessy.net/2012/3/23/why-you-should-be-excite...

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chao-|13 years ago

This is probably the most exciting part to me: Having copy-on-write without having to run REE.

xal|13 years ago

You can have this right now. We back ported the GC. Shopify in running on this ruby version in production.

https://gist.github.com/1688857