From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2011-06-11T05:57:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:36952] Re: [Request for Comment] avoid timer thread

Mark Somerville <mark@scottishclimbs.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:24:13PM +0900, Mark Somerville wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:53:03AM +0900, SASADA Koichi wrote:
> > > I attached a patch to avoid timer thread.  Your reviews are welcome.
> > 
> > I *finally* got around to testing this patch.
> > 
> > I applied this to trunk (it doesn't quite apply cleanly, but is easy to
> > fix). All the Ruby tests pass. I also ran the tests in all of my 1.9
> > compatible projects - everything was happy!
> > 
> > Most importantly, it fixes the wakeups/context switching problem nicely!
> 
> Has anyone else looked at this patch yet?

Mind reposting your updated patch?  ML archives mangled the original
one.  I can host a branch for it on git://bogomips.org/ruby.git too

> It would be great to get this (or something like it) into 1.9.3.
> 
> I consider this a pretty bad regression from 1.8. I don't want to have
> to use 1.8 any more!

I completely agree.  I plan on running Ruby 1.9 daemons on my laptop
more; so having this in 1.9.3 would be great.

-- 
Eric Wong