From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2010-07-18T11:13:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:31335] Re: [rubysoc] Queue C-extension patch to come


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On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 01:00:56PM +0900, Caleb Clausen wrote:
> NB: I am Ricardo's mentor for this project.
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> On 7/16/10, Aaron Patterson <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com> wrote:
> > It looks like this patch is just a port of the ruby code to C, but not
> > using a native queue system.
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> What native queue system? As far as I know, there aren't any kind of
> queue apis available from the OS on either posix or win32 systems.
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> > Can you show us benchmarks between this
> > version and the pure ruby implementation?
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> That's not really needed. It should be obvious that c code is faster
> than ruby code.

I'm sure the C implementation will be faster.  The point is: how much
faster?  "obviously" has no unit of measurement and doesn't really mean
anything to me.

I'm happy to see the benchmarks we have now.  Being able to measure an
improvement helps convince people it's needed.

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Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/

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