From: Han Holl <han.holl@...>
Date: 2007-05-30T20:42:29+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] fastthread 1.0

On 3/20/07, MenTaLguY <mental@rydia.net> wrote:
> Well, just when I thought I was out of the fastthread business...
>
> Okay, in brief:
>
> fastthread is a Ruby extension which re-implements the primitives in
> Ruby's thread.rb in C.  It was merged into 1.8.6, replacing the old
> thread.rb implementation, but the version that was merged had a couple
> serious bugs.
>
I wonder what those serious bugs might be.
I'm planning to install CentOS5 on some sixty machines. CentOS5 came
with a ruby-1.8.5 that had some nasty bugs, so I rebuild FC7
ruby-1.8.6-2 which has in ext/thread:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24337 Mar  3 11:08 thread.c
If this version has serious bugs, I'd rather rebuild the libs with a
corrected thread.c than going to require fastthread all over the
place.

Cheers,

Han Holl