# GC Patch for 1.8.7?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gc-patch-for-1-8-7/176038>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 23, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gc-patch-for-1-8-7/176038 "2009-09-23T22:59:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![tnyplz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@tnyplz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tnyplz)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gc-patch-for-1-8-7/176038/1 "2009-09-23T22:59:23Z")

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[http://guides.rubyonrails.org/performance\_testing.html](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/performance_testing.html)

Explains how to apply the GC Patch to get better performance  
measurements but this patch doesn’t work in 1.8.7 (I have  
ruby-1.8.7-p174). Is there a patch out there for ruby-1.8.7-p174?

The one listed in the article is  
[http://rubyforge.org/tracker/download.php/1814/7062/17676/3291/ruby186gc.patch](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/download.php/1814/7062/17676/3291/ruby186gc.patch)