[wbharding]

We didn't change our Ruby version. We changed as little as possible overall to make the comparison "apples-to-apples."

Getting a performance increase during an upgrade would be a highly welcomed change in our world.

[krisdol]

I'm not suggesting that you upgrade to 2.0, or anything drastic, but does this mean you don't install the security updates? Build 448 included important OpenSSL fixes, and no functional changes or deprecations occur during these minor upgrades.

[kawsper]

You should upgrade to build 484 because of this: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/heap-overflow-i...