Hi,
I'm wondering if it's a known problem but recently I had to revert a production server from 1.8.6_p287 to 1.8.6_p114 because the performance was abysmal. ./script/runner took nearly 40s to load the Rails environment before doing anything useful on a Core2Duo 2.66GHz running Gentoo Linux 64bit. ./script/console was affected too (~40s to prompt) and our most used controller actions were 2 to 4 times slower.
Is it a known problem of p287 ? If the problem exists for x86 it is at least smaller (./script/console is slow to initialize, but takes only around 5s on weak laptops) than on x86_64.
Lionel