From: Matthew Kerwin <matthew@...>
Date: 2012-07-05T08:39:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Green threads in 1.9.* ?

On 5 July 2012 03:03, rex goxman <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> So I have misread nothing.  I am **ONLY** talking about 1.9.*.  I could
> care less about 1.8 or any other implementation.

Couldn't. Unless your level of caring is greater than your minimum. Or
you can have negative carativitiy.

I'm pretty sure Xavier (fxn) has answered this thread pretty well.  My
question is: do you really care about the greenness of the threads
(academically), or do you actually want to know how best to utilise
them since they seem to have unusual profiling characteristics?

If the former, I don't know what to suggest. Research, code scouring,
reverse engineering (or read the link posted earlier). If the latter,
I say explore and research, and if you find something that works best
for your application use it, and maybe share it with us in case we
need to do it again some day.

As an aside, and I'm not pointing the finger at anyone in this thread
when I say this, but a week or two ago I commented to a colleague of
mine about how polite the ruby-talk forum was, and how people seemed
to consciously avoid flaming and trolling, and how noobs got useful
help even when they asked "dumb noob" questions, and how people said
"thank you" . . . but in the past couple of days there've been a few
discussions (usually related to optimisation or performance) that have
developed a very negative tone, if not outright ALL CAPS TYPING and
rage. What's going on? I want a return to the happy, friendly
ruby-talk of yesterweek.

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