From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-11-14T23:01:42+09:00
Subject: Re: state of threads in 1.9

Jordi wrote:
> Are Threads mapped to threads on the underlying operating system in
> 1.9 or still using green threads?
> If still using green threads, it is so because of a designing decision
> or it is a limitation of the current implementation?
> 
> 
> By the way, except for eigenclass there is no official changelog of
> changes in 1.9 ?
> It would be great (for the news, the people getting excited / start
> deprecating code, etc)
> 
> --
> Jordi
> 
> 
You mean "changelog" in the sense of differences between 1.8 and 1.9 
syntax and semantics, right? There is a changelog downloaded every time 
you update the source from the repository of changes *within* 1.9.

In any event, given that we are approaching the final month before 
release, what I think would be a really great idea would be for everyone 
who has the free time and machines to throw everything they can think of 
at 1.9 -- your favorite one-liners, huge Rails projects, benchmarks, 
Windows extension builds, GCC 4.3, Fedora 8, cross-compiling for ARM, 
etc. I personally don't have a huge code base in Ruby 1.8, so it's not a 
big deal for me to do a lot of new code in 1.9.