From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@aliax.net>
To: ruby.posix.mq@librelist.com
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8 + blocking + threads support?
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:46:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002211346.41456.ibc@aliax.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20100221005209.GA27905@dcvr.yhbt.net
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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2010-02-21 0:52 Ruby 1.8 + blocking + threads support? Eric Wong
2010-02-21 12:46 ` Iñaki Baz Castillo [this message]
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