>> With JRuby you can have 1.8 compatibility plus your selection of all the
>> pluggable garbage collectors available in the JVM.
> 
> 
> Thanks, I'll give JRuby a run on a VM and see how it performs. I'm 
> guessing that bleak_house and JRuby don't play together?

bleak house is a patched mri to provide quick access to its internals. 
As an alternative to 1.9 you could try mbari patches, which are patched 
versions of 1.8.7 and 1.8.6
GL!
-=r
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