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		petercooper on March 22, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Ruby? It's somewhat a wash against Python 3.3 in benches I've run but that's still a big step. Python, Perl and Ruby are broadly in the same zone now.

lucian1900 on March 22, 2013 | [–]

Ruby 2.0 has a real GC that doesn't touch all pages, so it allows efficient fork.

sams99 on March 23, 2013 | [–]

the big pain at the moment with the MRI GC is that it stops the world, on Discourse we see a 50-60ms stall every few requests. Can totally be mitigated with unicorn and oobgc (we will move to this), still a PITA.

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