From: Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@...>
Date: 2011-01-19T03:26:03+09:00
Subject: Re: What are your ruby rough cuts ?

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On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter@googlemail.com>wrote:

> Most importantly: improve Ruby's usage of native threads, i.e. get rid of
> GIL.


This is largely an implementation problem, not a language problem. JRuby,
IronRuby, Rubinius Hydra, and MacRuby all support GIL-free concurrent
multithreading.

It would be nice if there were some kind of standard memory model across all
implementations. It sounds like Rubinius Hydra aims to match JRuby's, which
I believe comes straight from Java.

You probably aren't ever going to see YARV get rid of the GIL. It would
require a complete rewrite.

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Tony Arcieri
Medioh! Kudelski

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