Be Prepared for Ruby 1.9.3 and 1.9.4: What’s New and What’s Different

Be Prepared for Ruby 1.9.3 and 1.9.4: What’s New and What’s Different

Ruby 1.9.2 essentially fixed down the language design for 1.9; 1.9.3 is just a 'better implementation' Ruby 1.8 has "no future" (she stated this a few times) but it will be "supported" for a few years to come there is no intention to release a Ruby 1.8.8 "You need to switch to Ruby 1.9" Ruby 1.9.3 will be out very soon the license was changed to joint BSD because the release of GPLv3 forced a rethink on licensing the locking strategy related to the GIL / GVL has been improved, resulting in improved performance test/unit's parallelization features are well suited for testing Ruby's stdlibs more quickly you can "safely switch to Ruby 1.9.3 from Ruby 1.9.2" as there are "few incompatibilities" the new "lazy GC" will improve the response time of the garbage collector and decrease overall GC throughput - more info in this article , for the curious Yugui is not particularly fami...

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