Akinori MUSHA wrote:
> It is my pleasure to announce that Ruby 1.8.7 has just been released.
thank you!

despite the claim of "some performance improvements" (are they 
documented anywhere?): tests with the CodeRay syntax highlighting 
library - which makes heavy use of StringScanner, Regexp and Hashes - 
run about 20-30% slower than they did with 1.8.6. is anybody else 
experiencing slowdowns, too? any ideas where to look for the bottleneck 
before I profile the whole thing?

[murphy]