From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-01-17T19:55:18+09:00
Subject: Re: faster Thread.exclusive

Hi,

At Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:16:38 +0900,
Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Can anyone see any reason not to use it? There is slightly different 
> semantics w.r.t. subclasses of Thread that redefine #critical, but I 
> think the difference is benign. Also, there is no way that 
> Thread.critical can raise an exception (in the curreny ruby source), so 
> that's not going to cause a problem with the placement of the "old = 
> critical" line.

Agree.  It would be used as Thread.exclusive in almost cases.
The gain seems to be mainly caused by replacing constant
references with self.

-- 
Nobu Nakada