title: Why is ruby so much slower on windows?
body: <p>What are the specific technical causes of Ruby being so much slower on Windows?  People report about a 3X speed drop from Linux/OSX and there are some vague discussions about Ruby using a compiler for Windows versions that produces slow code but I can't find any specific details.</p>
  
  <p>Anybody know the specifics?  I'm not interested in hurf durf Windoze sucks yuk yuks.</p>