From: Wink Saville <wink@...>
Date: 2005-10-27T14:25:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [Patch] Refactoring eval.c into eval.c, thread.c, thread.h & eval.h

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

>Hi,
>
>In message "Re: [Patch] Refactoring eval.c into eval.c, thread.c, thread.h & eval.h"
>    on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:44:57 +0900, Wink Saville <wink@saville.com> writes:
>
>|This refactors eval.c into eval.c, thread.c, thread.h & eval.h. I want 
>|to improve the performance of threads and separating thread code from 
>|eval is the first step into abstracting threads and making it easier to 
>|maintain. Please recommend any changes to the patch or other suggestions.
>
>The patch requires some name tweaking since it is revealing some
>previously private symbols to public.  Plus, I'm not sure where this
>patch should go.  1.9 threading will be replaced by YARV, which uses
>pthread/win32 thread.  And this change might be too big for stable
>1.8.  But this is refactoring, that should cause no harm.   Hmm.
>
>							matz.
>
>  
>
My opinion would be that we should leave 1.8 alone, but if you would 
like me to do this for 1.8 I will, of course let me know what name 
changes you'd like and anything else. Since YARV is going to support a 
new threading model, I'll shift my focus to it.

Wink