* Ruby 1.8 + blocking + threads support?
@ 2010-02-21 0:52 Eric Wong
2010-02-21 12:46 ` Iñaki Baz Castillo
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eric Wong @ 2010-02-21 0:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ruby.posix.mq
Does anybody want this badly?
Or are you all happily using 1.9 where we properly release the GVL if we
need to block? (or just avoiding threads entirely).
Currently we block the entire process under 1.8 when doing a blocking
send/receive on a full/empty queue.
We _can_ support 1.8 thread-safe blocking under Linux/FreeBSD only
(which may be enough), but I'm unlikely to make the effort unless people
really want it... Patches to that affect accepted, of course, but
I recommend 1.9 for any new projects people are starting since it's
easier to deal with and faster to boot.
--
Eric Wong
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* Re: Ruby 1.8 + blocking + threads support?
2010-02-21 0:52 Ruby 1.8 + blocking + threads support? Eric Wong
@ 2010-02-21 12:46 ` Iñaki Baz Castillo
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Iñaki Baz Castillo @ 2010-02-21 12:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ruby.posix.mq
El Domingo, 21 de Febrero de 2010, Eric Wong escribió:
> Does anybody want this badly?
>
> Or are you all happily using 1.9 where we properly release the GVL if we
> need to block? (or just avoiding threads entirely).
>
> Currently we block the entire process under 1.8 when doing a blocking
> send/receive on a full/empty queue.
>
> We _can_ support 1.8 thread-safe blocking under Linux/FreeBSD only
> (which may be enough), but I'm unlikely to make the effort unless people
> really want it... Patches to that affect accepted, of course, but
> I recommend 1.9 for any new projects people are starting since it's
> easier to deal with and faster to boot.
Personally I use Ruby 1.9 for all my new projects, and since they are expected
to be released in a future I also expect that Ruby 1.9 will already be stable
and widely available (deb, rpm packages and so).
--
Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>
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