It doesn't appear that there's been any real speedup on the Ruby on Rails results for the last several rounds, so... why is that? Does nobody in the community care about speed? Is there no way to speed up Rails? Is it not clear where the bottlenecks are? Are the profiling tools not good enough? I'd sincerely like to know if someone has taken on the task and just been frustrated, or if no one has actually tried.
We have received numerous pull requests from a spectrum of communities, but the Ruby community has been fairly quiet on that front. For example, not a whole lot has changed with the Rails test since March aside from us adding implementations of the newer test types:
