From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2002-12-14T08:35:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby slow??


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Matt Armstrong (matt@lickey.com) wrote:

> "Garriss, Michael" <Michael.Garriss@abacus-direct.com> writes:
> >
> > http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/bench/prodcons/
>=20
> That test creates 100,000 ruby threads and uses lots of thread
> primitives.  Threads are pretty slow in Ruby because of the way they
> are implemented (each thread switch involves a large memcpy() of the
> stack).

No, the test creates two threads.  It passes 100,000 integers from the
producer thread to the consumer thread via a shared variable 'data',
locking and unlocking a Mutex 200,000 times.

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