From: Jeremy Kemper <jeremy@...>
Date: 2009-11-22T06:14:14+09:00
Subject: Re: COW-friendly Ruby 1.9?

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:26 PM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
> This is disappointing. After all the noise from Merb, Unicorn, Phusion, and
> "enterprise edition", and especially considering that forking is the only real
> way to make MRI scale to multiple cores, I'd have expected some sort of COW-
> friendly GC to have been merged already. Wasn't someone working on this
> somewhere back in 1.9.0?

See [ruby-core:19799] for a bitmap-marking GC patch.

jeremy