Thanks for the comments. Just joined the Ruby Manor group and was nearly blown away by the epic trailer :-)<br><a href="http://rubymanor.org/videos/trailer/">http://rubymanor.org/videos/trailer/</a><br><br>/ Vahagn<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Matthew Rudy Jacobs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthewrudyjacobs@gmail.com">matthewrudyjacobs@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2009/2/21 Vahagn Hayrapetyan <<a href="mailto:vahagnh@gmail.com">vahagnh@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Excuse me! What I meant was Ruby GC, ie the Ruby garbage collector. A slip<br>
> of the keyboard...<br>
><br>
> The reason why I think it would be an interesting topic is because I've<br>
> overheard Michael Koziarski at JAOO 2008 talk about how the current GC<br>
> implementation was old and slow. So, it got me wondering if there are ways<br>
> to program / develop around this or maybe something was in the works to<br>
> replace the old one.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Take a look at Ruby Enterprise Edition.<br>
They reworking the garbage collector,<br>
and it seemed to make a lot of difference to memory consumption.<br>
<br>
It also sounded like Phusion (who make Ruby Enterprise) were going to<br>
contribute their changes back into Rails 1.9<br>
<br>
But,<br>
I think this is all leading us onto what should be the hot topic right now.<br>
<br>
"Migration to Ruby 1.9"<br>
<br>
It feels like its going to happen soon.<br>
<br>
If I'm around in July,<br>
I'd probably want to talk about Queueing and offline Processing.<br>
<br>
Also<br>
why not read through the whole history of<br>
<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-manor" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-manor</a><br>
<br>
Thousands of posts discussing what topics were important to the world of ruby.<br>
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