[ruby-core:23898] Re: Merging recent Ruby threading improvements

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Joe Damato<[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi ruby-core and CC'ed friends -
>
> As many of you know, Aman Gupta and I have been busy hacking on Ruby
> 1.8.{6,7} internals making some cool improvements with the threading
> implementation.
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> If Aman and I do the following items:
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> 1.) Add #ifdefs to allow non x86 architectures to compile and use the old
> thread code paths
> 2.) Test on a few more architectures (we would need help from the community
> for this)
> 3.) Fix continuations
>
> Will our code be considered for merging to future Ruby 1.8.{6,7} releases?

I am in complete support of continuing to push the state of the art in
1.8 by incorporating this kind of work.  And so long as the work is
accepted into 1.8 HEAD, I'm ready and willing to work on the
backporting effort.


Kirk Haines