From: "s.ross" <cwdinfo@...>
Date: 2009-06-09T15:23:59+09:00
Subject: Ruby 1.9.x Concurrency

Poking through the Apple press releases today, I sat up and took  
notice when I saw that they were putting a fair amount of pretty  
public emphasis on concurrency as the silver bullet for faster  
computing when Snow Leopard comes out. If we stipulate that  
concurrency is fundamentally a good solution of a certain class of  
problems, here were the questions I immediately had:

- My understanding is that the 1.9 implementation of threads is to use  
native threads. But the caveat is that the GIL is still in place. What  
does this mean in practice as it applies to increasing throughput by  
distributing load across processor cores?

- I'm trying to parse the fiber vs. thread distinction and it feels to  
me like fibers are a leaner, meaner version of the 1.8.x green  
threads, but that they will always run on the same core. Am I missing  
something here?

Thanks,

Steve