On Tue, 06 Jun 2006, David Corbin defenestrated me: > On Monday 05 June 2006 11:20 am, Charles O Nutter wrote: > > > > At this point, my vote goes to OS being disabled by default, with a flag to > > turn it on. > > I'm sorry, but you must be joking. It's an integral part of what Ruby is. > Just about everyone that uses Test::Unit uses it for sure (even if they don't > kinow it), and who knows what other packages need it. I don't have any > specific answers for how to improve performance, but I don't think a switch > is good one.
We talked about this last night and decided that by default OS should be on, but we would like to provide an option to turn it off in places where it is not needed (as a perf option in places where lots of object creation is being done). -Tom -- + http://www.tc.umn.edu/~enebo +---- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ----+ | Thomas E Enebo, Protagonist | "Luck favors the prepared | | | mind." -Louis Pasteur | _______________________________________________ Jruby-devel mailing list Jruby-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jruby-devel