Re: state of threads in 1.9

On Nov 14, 2007 11:01 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> 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?

I don't mean the internals of all the changes, just:

- A new interpreted (previously YARV)  2.5x faster on averaged
- threads now are natives

Something like that would be nice for a lot of that is getting
interested in Ruby, news places, etc.


> >
> >
> > 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.
>
>