From: Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-08-26T07:08:16+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] EventLoop 0.0.20050825.1600

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> 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/
> 

In other news, 1989 called.  They want their version numbering system back.

Please give us a sane version number. :)

Dan