[#15707] Schedule for the 1.8.7 release — "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@...>

Hi, developers,

21 messages 2008/03/01

[#15740] Copy-on-write friendly garbage collector — Hongli Lai <hongli@...99.net>

Hi.

31 messages 2008/03/03
[#15742] Re: Copy-on-write friendly garbage collector — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/03/03

Hi,

[#15829] Re: Copy-on-write friendly garbage collector — Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com> 2008/03/08

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#15756] embedding Ruby 1.9.0 inside pthread — "Suraj Kurapati" <sunaku@...>

Hello,

18 messages 2008/03/03
[#15759] Re: embedding Ruby 1.9.0 inside pthread — Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...> 2008/03/04

Hi,

[#15760] Re: embedding Ruby 1.9.0 inside pthread — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/03/04

Hi,

[#15762] Re: embedding Ruby 1.9.0 inside pthread — "Suraj N. Kurapati" <sunaku@...> 2008/03/04

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#15783] Adding startup and shutdown to Test::Unit — Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>

Hi all,

15 messages 2008/03/04

[#15835] TimeoutError in core, timeouts for ConditionVariable#wait — MenTaLguY <mental@...>

I've been reworking JRuby's stdlib to improve performance and fix

10 messages 2008/03/09

[#15990] Recent changes in Range#step behavior — "Vladimir Sizikov" <vsizikov@...>

Hi,

35 messages 2008/03/23
[#15991] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2008/03/23

[#15993] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — "Vladimir Sizikov" <vsizikov@...> 2008/03/23

Hi Dave,

[#15997] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2008/03/23

[#16024] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — "Vladimir Sizikov" <vsizikov@...> 2008/03/26

Hi Dave,

[#16025] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/03/26

Hi,

[#16026] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2008/03/26

[#16027] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/03/26

Hi,

[#16029] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2008/03/26

[#16030] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/03/26

Hi,

[#16031] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2008/03/26

[#16032] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — "Vladimir Sizikov" <vsizikov@...> 2008/03/26

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> wrote:

[#16033] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2008/03/26

[#16041] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — David Flanagan <david@...> 2008/03/26

Dave Thomas wrote:

Re: Copy-on-write friendly garbage collector

From: Hongli Lai <hongli@...99.net>
Date: 2008-03-13 11:04:14 UTC
List: ruby-core #15881
Daniel DeLorme wrote:
> Thank you. I also looked at find_position_in_bitfield() but I assumed 
> the compiler would be able to make those optimizations, so ended up not 
> touching it.
> 
> I notice that this patch is relative to one of the patches that I 
> submitted. But in those patches I changed the bsearch to a linear 
> search, which may not be desirable as Matz pointed out. But I'm not sure 
> it's a good idea to sacrifice performance now for the sake of a 
> hypothetical change in heap size in the future (YAGNI). Maybe a #define 
> could take care of that? e.g.
>   #ifdef FEW_HEAPS
>     order heaps by size, linear search
>   #else
>     order heaps by memory location, bsearch
>   #endif

My patch is against 1.8, which doesn't have sorted heaps.

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