ruby-1.9.3-p385 cumulative performance patch for rbenv

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Patched ruby 1.9.3-p194 for 30% faster rails boot

Overview

This script installs a patched version of ruby 1.9.3-p194 with boot-time performance improvements (#66 and #68), and runtime performance improvements (#83 and #84). It also includes the new backported GC from ruby-trunk.

Many thanks to funny-falcon for the performance patches.

• http://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/66
• http://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/68
• http://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/83
• http://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/84

Requirements

• rbenv
• ruby-build

OR

• rvm

Ok, let's do this!

If you're using rbenv:

curl https://raw.github.com/gist/1688857/rbenv.sh | sh ; rbenv global 1.9.3-p194-perf

If you're using rvm:

rvm get head && rvm reinstall 1.9.3-perf --patch falcon --force-autoconf -j 3

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=1000000000
export RUBY_HEAP_FREE_MIN=500000

Also, you might want to try out Zeus, which takes advantage of the patched GC to preload your rails app.

2-1.9.3-p194-patched.sh

build_package_combined_patch() {
  local package_name="$1"

  {
    curl https://raw.github.com/gist/2593385/perf_and_gc.diff | patch -p1
    autoconf
    ./configure --prefix="$PREFIX_PATH" $CONFIGURE_OPTS
    make -j 8
    make install
  } >&4 2>&1

}

require_gcc
install_package "yaml-0.1.4" "http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz"
install_package "ruby-1.9.3-p194" "http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p194.tar.gz" combined_patch

rbenv.sh

VERSION="1.9.3-p194"
curl https://raw.github.com/gist/1688857/2-$VERSION-patched.sh > /tmp/$VERSION-perf
rbenv install /tmp/$VERSION-perf