[#12073] Re: Ruby is much slower on linux when compiled with --enable-pthread? — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>

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9 messages 2007/09/04

[#12085] New array methods cycle, choice, shuffle (plus bug in cycle) — David Flanagan <david@...>

Four new methods have been added to Array the Ruby 1.9 trunk. I've got

81 messages 2007/09/06
[#18036] Re: New array methods cycle, choice, shuffle (plus bug in cycle) — Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...> 2008/07/31

Restarting this thread because I missed it the first time around and

[#18037] Re: New array methods cycle, choice, shuffle (plus bug in cycle) — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/07/31

Hi,

[#18038] Re: New array methods cycle, choice, shuffle (plus bug in cycle) — "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.brown@...> 2008/08/01

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

[#18046] Re: New array methods cycle, choice, shuffle (plus bug in cycle) — Michael Neumann <mneumann@...> 2008/08/01

Gregory Brown wrote:

[#18048] Re: New array methods cycle, choice, shuffle (plus bug in cycle) — Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...> 2008/08/01

Michael Neumann wrote:

[#18051] Re: New array methods cycle, choice, shuffle (plus bug in cycle) — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2008/08/01

Hi --

[#18053] Re: New array methods cycle, choice, shuffle (plus bug in cycle) — "Wilson Bilkovich" <wilsonb@...> 2008/08/01

On 8/1/08, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:

[#18074] Re: New array methods cycle, choice, shuffle (plus bug in cycle) — David Flanagan <david@...> 2008/08/01

Wilson Bilkovich wrote:

[#18080] Re: New array methods cycle, choice, shuffle (plus bug in cycle) — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/08/02

Hi,

[#18097] Re: New array methods cycle, choice, shuffle (plus bug in cycle) — "Pit Capitain" <pit.capitain@...> 2008/08/03

2008/8/2 Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org>:

[#18040] Re: New array methods cycle, choice, shuffle (plus bug in cycle) — Jim Weirich <jim.weirich@...> 2008/08/01

On Jul 31, 2008, at 7:33 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

[#18056] Re: New array methods cycle, choice, shuffle (plus bug in cycle) — Thomas Enebo <Thomas.Enebo@...> 2008/08/01

Jim Weirich wrote:

[#18059] Re: New array methods cycle, choice, shuffle (plus bug in cycle) — Jim Weirich <jim.weirich@...> 2008/08/01

On Aug 1, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Thomas Enebo wrote:

[#12096] Next 1.8.6 on Sept. 22 — Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>

Hi all.

28 messages 2007/09/09

[#12201] how about actors implemented in ruby-core itself — hemant <gethemant@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2007/09/20

[#12248] arbitrary Unicode characters in identifiers? — David Flanagan <david@...>

12 messages 2007/09/26

[#12284] gc.c -- possible logic error? — Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>

I've been looking at Tom Copeland's memory allocation problem:

36 messages 2007/09/28
[#12329] Re: gc.c -- possible logic error? — Tanaka Akira <akr@...> 2007/10/01

In article <Pine.GSO.4.64.0709281302390.26570@brains.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk>,

[#12305] Will 1.8.6 remain compiled with VC6? — "Luis Lavena" <luislavena@...>

Hello Core developers.

29 messages 2007/09/30
[#12306] Re: Will 1.8.6 remain compiled with VC6? — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/09/30

On 9/30/07, Luis Lavena <luislavena@gmail.com> wrote:

Re: how about actors implemented in ruby-core itself

From: "Wilson Bilkovich" <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2007-09-20 17:21:07 UTC
List: ruby-core #12205
On 9/20/07, hemant <gethemant@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am relatively new to Ruby, so pardon me If i say something stupid.
>
> Perhaps its been discussed before, but I was wondering if we can have
> scala/erlang like actors implemented in ruby-core itself.
>
> I suppose these actors will run on native threads internally, which
> Ruby2 will support, but users will write code that uses message
> passing and unshared states for concurrency.
>
> Ruby VM will take care of scheduling and running these actors and
> hence freeing the user from mess thats called "Threads".
>
> I believe one can obviously write this actor library outside the core
> and yet achieve the same functionality, but having it as a part of
> ruby standard will make be good.
>
> I saw Fiber  and was clearly blown away and it looked like, with Fiber
> one can do something like stackless python tasklets(I think, I am yet
> to understand Fiber completely, so i may be off by a mile or so, but
> if one can make it more clear for me, i would be thankful).
>
> Thanks for great work, all of you.
>

Rubinius has Actor (implemented by MenTaLguY) as a core class. If ruby
1.9.x wanted to add them as well, we would be more than happy to
conform to the API that was chosen. Right now we basically just have
Actor.spawn, Actor.receive, Actor#send, and Actor.current

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