The goal of this project is to obsolete itself and improve Ruby itself. This RubyGem /may/ improve the performance of net/* libraries under (matz) Ruby 1.9.3+. If there is any benefit, large (memory-footprint) applications stand more to gain than smaller ones. See: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5138 and http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5765