[rockasaur]

Do you think we as a community should be pushing for a potential rewrite of MRI to get rid of the GIL? I feel as if the GIL is what is limiting true ruby performance.

It also seems like Matz and ruby core team don't really give a shit about performance.

It is very possible to achieve a high level of performance on an interpreted language!!

[Spakman]

I don't think that it's true that the core developers don't care about performance at all.

There's an argument that removing the GIL would require a lot of effort for little gain (and in some cases decreased performance). It's just not a priority for them.

Of course, every use case is different (sometimes very different), but I haven't ever hit a problem that has caused me to curse the GIL.

[jdminhbg]

If you want a GIL-less Ruby, check out Rubinius: http://rubini.us/2013/03/19/pdx-summit-recap/