[#11852] continuations in Ruby 1.9? — David Flanagan <david@...>
In a comment on my recent blog post
On 8/6/07, David Flanagan <david@davidflanagan.com> wrote:
[#11860] Is this really what we want? — James Edward Gray II <james@...>
I'm investigating some recent breakage in FasterCSV and have tracking
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[#11871] ruby-openssl: == incorrect for X509-Subjects — Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@...>
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[#11876] priorities of newly-created threads — David Flanagan <david@...>
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[#11886] Core dump with simple web scraper when run via cron — Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Hi all,
[#11890] Ruby and Solaris door library — "Hiro Asari" <asari.ruby@...>
Hi, there. This is my first patch against ruby. I think I followed
Hiro Asari wrote:
On 8/13/07, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:
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On 8/15/07, Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:
[#11893] UDP sockets raise exception on MIPS platform — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
I am running ruby-1.8.6 under OpenWrt (*), which is a small MIPS platform
[#11894] IO#seek and whence problem — Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
[#11899] pack/unpack 64bit Integers — Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@...>
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 06:50:01AM +0900, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 02:45:20PM +0900, Brian Candler wrote:
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 05:17:09PM +0200, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
Dumb question of the day: are Kernel#proc and Kernel#lambda identical?
> Dumb question of the day: are Kernel#proc and Kernel#lambda identical?
[#11900] missing bison, gperf not detected, do I need ruby to build ruby? — "Gabor Szabo" <szabgab@...>
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On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> > It seems ./configure did not detect the fact that bison was missing from
[#11930] Bug in select? — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...>
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[#11945] Smoke testing Ruby — "Gabor Szabo" <szabgab@...>
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On 8/21/07, Gabor Szabo <szabgab@gmail.com> wrote:
Ruby used to have the Triple-R project based on Rubicon: see
Hugh Sasse wrote:
[#11947] Splatting MatchData bug? — Jos Backus <jos@...>
$ /tmp/ruby-1.9/bin/ruby -v
[#11948] Fibers in Ruby 1.9? — David Flanagan <david@...>
I just noticed that my ruby1.9 build of August 17th includes a Fiber
David Flanagan wrote:
On 8/22/07, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:50:12 +0900, "Francis Cianfrocca" <garbagecat10@gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/22/07, MenTaLguY <mental@rydia.net> wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:57:01 +0900, "Francis Cianfrocca" <garbagecat10@gmail.com> wrote:
[#11960] coroutines with Fiber::Core — David Flanagan <david@...>
The following code works on Linux with today's snapshot of 1.9:
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[#11981] Inverse Square Root — "Dave Pederson" <dave.pederson@...>
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[#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.
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On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:54:20 +0200, Yukihiro Matsumoto
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On 8/25/07, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
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On 8/25/07, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
[#12025] how to build ruby on vms — "toni" <toni@...>
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[#12040] Pragmas in Ruby 1.9 — David Flanagan <david@...>
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[#12042] Encodings of string literals; explicit codepoint escapes? — David Flanagan <david@...>
This message contains queries that probably only Matz can answer:
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Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
On 8/31/07, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
Re: Fibers in Ruby 1.9?
On 8/22/07, David Flanagan <david@davidflanagan.com> wrote: > > 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 > > Thanks for the info guys. Obviously there's nothing stopping anyone from writing pure userland threads and scheduling them on top of kernel threads or LWPs. I'm not entirely convinced of the benefits of getting lightweight concurrency this way, but that's obviously not the question here. :-)