Charles Oliver Nutter

> There are two possible routes to mitigate this interpreter creation penalty. I count three :-) We could also add information to `jruby -v`. Currently it already includes information about...

Another thought related to modifying JRuby: perhaps gem root/home should always come from a configuration property, but that property would default to the env var. There's currently no way to...

I vote for `jruby --environment`.

This might also be a good feature for MRI.

Just ran into this trying to run Mastodon :-) I've only looked over the extension briefly, but it seems like the functionality provided here has *got* to exist somewhere in...

@brianmario It shouldn't be too hard to use FFI for this. I assume you are not doing anything magic to install or vendor libicu, so if it's present on the...

@brodock It probably could, and without writing a line of Java (though we could move some code into Java later for perf is necessary.

Has this been superseded by another merge?

@ChrisBr Ahh ok, I understand. Yeah, would still be nice to get this in, but perhaps @brianmario is not interested? @brianmario Can we revisit this?

@brianmario Sure, I can help get this integrated. Green CI would clearly be a first step. Maybe a separate PR to drop a few really old versions from CI?