From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-08-26T07:04:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] EventLoop 0.0.20050825.1600

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Tanaka Akira wrote:
> 
>>In article <430DFCD4.6000405@path.berkeley.edu>,
>>  Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I *love* ruby threads. Still, I wish ruby's thread scheduler would
>>>handle more types of blocking than select can handle, such as waiting
>>>for a file lock.
>>
>>
>>File#flock works well since Ruby 1.8.2.  It blocks only the calling
>>thread.  It doesn't block other threads.
> 
> 
> Wow! Thanks.
> 

I updated FSDB(*) to 0.5 to take advantage of this, in case it's running
on 1.8.2 or better. In code with several processes each with several
threads, I see about a 12%-17% speed boost, because of not having to use
the polling hack.

(*) http://redshift.sourceforge.net/fsdb/

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