From: hemant <gethemant@...>
Date: 2007-11-16T07:20:49+09:00
Subject: Re: state of threads in 1.9

On Nov 15, 2007 9:58 PM, MenTaLguY <mental@rydia.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:38:05 +0900, Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@m4x.org> wrote:
> > Would not it be possible to release the global lock manually in C
> > extensions ?

Wasn't there a talk of possibility of allowing release of global lock
in C extensions, allowing
fine grained control to C extension authors, who want more than one
thread running parallely?


>
> > I guess that implementation of blocking calls like
> > Mutex#lock, #select and such must release the global lock before calling
> > the blocking functions ?
>
> There is rb_thread_blocking_region()...
>
> -mental
>
>
>



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