work on Syck has been extremely speedy of late.  i have the ruby
extension up and running now and it flies, o indeed!

this is great news, as all of my yaml.rb users will benefit from
(1) having it in the Ruby 1.8 dist, and (2) having a loader that
will likely run 10-20x faster.

for non-Ruby users, this simply means that you'll be seeing yaml
loading in your local scripting language soon.  huzzah!