From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2009-11-22T06:50:29+09:00
Subject: Re: COW-friendly Ruby 1.9?

On Saturday 21 November 2009 03:14:14 pm Jeremy Kemper wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I saw that. Something about SEGV in make test -- and I really don't see 
any follow-up to that. What's the status of getting something like this 
actually in core and stable?