This is falcon.patch splitted to be reviewed.
- 01-cached-lp.diff - Cached expanded $LOAD_PATH - speedups startup
- 02-sorted-lf.diff - Sorted $LOADED_FEATURES - tiny speedup startup
- 03-st_opt.diff - Some improvements for hash creation
- 04-sparse_array.diff - Performance improvement for methods/constants/instance variable offset tables
- 05-ary-queue.diff - make array to be fully suitable as queue
- 06-st_opt_sparse_array.diff - 03 + 04
- 07-backport-gc.diff - backport of COW friendly GC