From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-11-22T18:33:53+09:00
Subject: Re: COW-friendly Ruby 1.9?


On Nov 21, 2009, at 13:50 , David Masover wrote:

> 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?

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