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Ruby 1.9
What’s New and Why it MattersBruce Williams
Bruce Williams
Rubyist since 2001 (compensated since 2004)Open source developer, contributer, technical editor,speakerBackground in linguistics, interested in language design& tourismMoved to Austin in mid 2007 for
Other developers: Brian Dainton, Eric Falcoa, Adam Keys, and Mike Perham.
Perpetrator of much random Ruby hackery
Which Version to Use?
1.81.9Stable VersionUnstable Version
“Production Use”“Transitional” (to 2.0)
The stability you know and feelcomfortable with. The syntax and language features youknow and love. The performance profile you know andmight hate a little.Unstable; still many bugs to squash.New syntax and language features; willtake some getting used to -- and that’sthe point.In general, better performance for“compute intensive” operations.
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