ruby-1.9.3-p327 cumulative performance patch for rbenv

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ruby-1.9.3-p327 cumulative performance patch for rbenv

This installs a patched ruby 1.9.3-p327 with various performance improvements and a backported COW-friendly GC, all courtesy of funny-falcon.

Requirements

• rbenv
• ruby-build

You will also need a C Compiler. If you're on Linux, you probably already have one or know how to install one. On OS X, you should install XCode, and brew install autoconf using homebrew.

Ok, let's do this!

curl https://raw.github.com/gist/1688857/rbenv.sh | sh ; rbenv global 1.9.3-p327-perf

BONUS!

Putting the following in your shell config (eg. ~/.bash_profile) will make Rails even faster, but will increase its memory footprint:

export RUBY_HEAP_MIN_SLOTS=1000000
export RUBY_HEAP_SLOTS_INCREMENT=1000000
export RUBY_HEAP_SLOTS_GROWTH_FACTOR=1
export RUBY_GC_MALLOC_LIMIT=100000000
export RUBY_HEAP_FREE_MIN=500000

More BONUS!

If you're feeling adventurous, you can set some additional compile flags before you run the command above. These may cause the build to fail. If so, you can try again without the march flag, and it'll probably work. This generally makes my ruby ~1.5% faster. See http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Safe_Cflags/Intel for more guidance. I had to change it to -march=core2 on my Macbook Air 2011/11".

export CFLAGS="-march=native -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"

This has to be run BEFORE you compile ruby.

2-1.9.3-p327-patched.sh

build_package_combined_patch() {
  local package_name="$1"

  {
    curl https://raw.github.com/gist/4136373/falcon-gc.diff | patch -p1
    autoconf
    ./configure --prefix="$PREFIX_PATH" $CONFIGURE_OPTS
    make -j 8
    make install
  } >&4 2>&1

}

install_package "yaml-0.1.4" "http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz"
install_package "ruby-1.9.3-p327" "http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p327.tar.gz" combined_patch

rbenv.sh

VERSION="1.9.3-p327"
curl https://raw.github.com/gist/1688857/2-$VERSION-patched.sh > /tmp/$VERSION-perf
rbenv install /tmp/$VERSION-perf