[ruby-core:73480] [CommonRuby - Feature #12020] Documenting Ruby memory model

Issue #12020 has been updated by Petr Chalupa.


Thanks, I've published the document on following address, it'll be updated automatically, works without JS.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pVzU8w_QF44YzUCCab990Q_WZOdhpKolCIHaiXG-sPw/pub

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Feature #12020: Documenting Ruby memory model
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12020#change-56704

* Author: Petr Chalupa
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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Defining a memory model for a language is necessary to be able to reason about a program behavior in a concurrent or parallel environment. 

There was a document created describing a Ruby memory model for concurrent-ruby gem, which fits several Ruby language implementations. It was necessary to be able to build lower-level unifying layer that enables creation of concurrency abstractions. They can be implemented only once against the layer, which ensures that it runs on all Ruby implementations.

The Ruby MRI implementation has stronger undocumented guaranties because of GIL semantics than the memory model, but the few relaxations from MRIs behavior allow other implementations to fit the model as well and to improve performance.

This issue proposes to document the Ruby memory model. The above mentioned memory model document which was created for concurrent-ruby can be used as a starting point: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pVzU8w_QF44YzUCCab990Q_WZOdhpKolCIHaiXG-sPw/edit#. Please comment in the document or here.

The aggregating issue of this effort can be found [here](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12019).

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RubyMemoryModel.rtf (635 KB)


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