On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:58:45 +0900, Aaron Smith <beingthexemplary / gmail.com> wrote: > Do you think the de/serialization times could be noticeably improved? > Compared to trying to figure out why the String#== is called so much? I didn't have much time to look at the profile carefully last night, but the impression I got was that a lot of the string comparison that was happening was coming from WEBrick. (I would be curious how much difference using Mongrel versus using WEBrick makes.) -mental