travis-ci/travis-ci — Issue #401: 1.9.3-falcon
Author: brainopia
Created: 2012-01-29 11:07:55+00:00
State: open

I'm opening this issue by @svenfuchs's request.

@funny-falcon has submitted several patches for ruby 1.9.3 which improve both cpu performance and memory consumption. Ruby-core has been pretty passive on corresponding redmine tickets. Recently larger chunk of ruby community has became aware of them. Latest rvm provides built-in support for these patches: `rvm install 1.9.3-p0-falcon --patch falcon`.

Travis can provide `1.9.3-falcon` ruby to test against. It will have several benefits. First of all it will provide an easy way to demonstrate how much these patches improve ruby performance by comparing time it took to complete tests on 1.9.3 and 1.9.3-falcon. Therefore it will provide wider adoption of these patches among rubyists and give incentive to ruby-core to react on redmine tickets. Secondly, by seeing improvement in test times people will switch their travis worker to run tests from 1.9.3 to 1.9.3-falcon leading to better utilization of cpu and ram.