REE is more efficient than standard's MRI mainly because of some specific patches like the copy on write (COW) GC patch and a few other ones. The Phusion guys did a good talk at Google explaining what they did, you might want to check:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghLCtCwAKqQ - Matt On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Jason King <[email protected]> wrote: > To be honest, most of the REE hype is about performance improvements, > and you get 95% of those improvements yourself by just compiling ruby > from source instead of using a distro package. Use whichever takes > your fancy. > > On Jan 4, 2010, at 12:46 AM, Unnsse Khan wrote: > > > Does anyone know how REE < http://www.rubyenterpriseedition.com/ > > > compares with Matz Ruby? Is this the one to be using? > > > > -Unnsse > > > > -- > > SD Ruby mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
