[#11890] Ruby and Solaris door library — "Hiro Asari" <asari.ruby@...>

Hi, there. This is my first patch against ruby. I think I followed

19 messages 2007/08/13
[#11892] Re: Ruby and Solaris door library — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...> 2007/08/14

Hiro Asari wrote:

[#11899] pack/unpack 64bit Integers — Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2007/08/14
[#11903] Re: pack/unpack 64bit Integers — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...> 2007/08/15

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 06:50:01AM +0900, Hadmut Danisch wrote:

[#11948] Fibers in Ruby 1.9? — David Flanagan <david@...>

I just noticed that my ruby1.9 build of August 17th includes a Fiber

22 messages 2007/08/22
[#11949] Re: Fibers in Ruby 1.9? — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...> 2007/08/22

David Flanagan wrote:

[#11950] Re: Fibers in Ruby 1.9? — "Francis Cianfrocca" <garbagecat10@...> 2007/08/22

On 8/22/07, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:

[#11952] Re: Fibers in Ruby 1.9? — MenTaLguY <mental@...> 2007/08/22

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:50:12 +0900, "Francis Cianfrocca" <garbagecat10@gmail.com> wrote:

[#11988] String#length not working properly in Ruby 1.9 — "Vincent Isambart" <vincent.isambart@...>

I saw that Matz just merged his M17N implementation in the trunk.

17 messages 2007/08/25
[#11991] Re: String#length not working properly in Ruby 1.9 — "Michael Neumann" <mneumann@...> 2007/08/25

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:54:20 +0200, Yukihiro Matsumoto

[#11992] Re: String#length not working properly in Ruby 1.9 — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2007/08/25

Hi,

[#12042] Encodings of string literals; explicit codepoint escapes? — David Flanagan <david@...>

This message contains queries that probably only Matz can answer:

16 messages 2007/08/31
[#12043] Re: Encodings of string literals; explicit codepoint escapes? — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2007/08/31

Hi,

Re: Fibers in Ruby 1.9?

From: David Flanagan <david@...>
Date: 2007-08-22 19:22:40 UTC
List: ruby-core #11963
My posts to ruby-core have arrived out-of-order today.  By the time this 
message appeared, it was already out of date.  I have tested Fibers 
directly and they do work on Linux.  See 
http://www.davidflanagan.com/blog/2007_08.html#000139

	David

David Flanagan wrote:
> Francis,
> 
> As I understand it, external iterators are implemented on top of fibers. 
>  And external iterators are working for me in Linux.  So the fibers must 
> be working.  (I've posted external iterator examples at
> http://www.davidflanagan.com/blog/2007_08.html#000138 but I haven't 
> figured out the Fiber API yet, so I haven't tested Fibers directly yet.)
> 
> According to Wikipedia's entry on Fibers, they can be implemented in 
> Posix with getcontext,setcontext,swapcontext from ucontext.h.  I don't 
> know anything about it.  I haven't done that kind of low-level hacking 
> since the days of setjmp/longjmp.
> 
> I doesn't look to me, however, as if Ruby's implementation does that. 
> Fibers are in cont.c, along with continuations.  I haven't figured that 
> code out yet, but I'm guessing that they're implemented on top of (or 
> with the same techniques as) Continuations.
> 
>     David

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