From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2006-11-24T05:54:02+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] fastthread 0.4

On 23/11/06, MenTaLguY <mental@rydia.net> wrote:
>
> fastthread is a library which replaces the synchronization primitives
> defined in stdlib's thread.rb (Mutex, ConditionVariable, Queue, and
> SizedQueue) with optimized versions which:
>
>       * are much faster (in the non-contention case, speed comparable to
>         direct use of Thread.critical or Thread.exclusive)
>       * don't leak memory (the stdlib implementation of Mutex manages to
>         trigger worst-case behavior of a memory leak in Array)
>
> To use it, simply require 'fastthread' before you require 'thread'.
> Provided you don't muck with thread.rb's internals, your code should
> work with no additional modification.
>
> 0.4 is primarily a robustness/bugfix release. There is both a gem and a
> tarball available:
>
>       * http://moonbase.rydia.net/software/optimized-locking/fastthread-0.4.gem
>       * http://moonbase.rydia.net/software/optimized-locking/fastthread-0.4.tgz
>
> -mental
>
>
>

Any chance this will be incorporated into the core libs?

Farrel