Hi. Ah, yes, I noticed that, on my machine the Thread creation isn't really anything heavy at all. I mean, it do take time, but not THAT much time.
We'll see, but I think I'll delay that experiment for now. /O At 17:48 2006-06-14, you wrote: >It's probably worth a try, though I suspect that the large part of the >load from spinning off so many threads is not necessarily the fact that >they're native, but the fact that they're native and they require standing >up an entire ThreadContext and all its various stacks. The performance hit >during the actual gem unpack and install, however, seems now to overshadow >the threading piece. When I install from local gems (cached) it still >takes an extremely long time to run...even with rdoc disabled. It would >probably be most productive to focus on what's happening during the actual >install for now rather than digging into the threading stuff. > >At any rate, thread pooling should actually be pretty easy to wire in; the >instantiation of a native thread was one of the first things I abstracted >out when originally reworking the threading stuff. I wouldn't expect you'd >have to rip out a lot of stuff. > >On 6/14/06, Ola Bini <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >Probably later today, I'll do some experimenting with making JRuby threads >into a ThreadPool instead. This would _probably_ make performance MUCH >better in cases such as the ruby gems download. > >I plan to use doug lea's concurrency library and a standard PooledExecutor >for this. I will probably have to implement a subclass of Thread and a >ThreadFactory that enables me to get hold of the current Runnable, but this >is a small task. My first plan was to try to change as few things as >possible, but I think it will work better if I rip out what isn't right and >just try to get it working with pooling instead, so we can see what >benefits this strategy gives us. > >It shouldn't really impair functionality, since if we use an unbounded >Pool, there will always be enough threads to use. > >Any thoughts? > >Regards > Ola Bini > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Jruby-devel mailing list ><mailto:Jruby-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>Jruby-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jruby-devel > > > > >-- >Charles Oliver Nutter @ <http://headius.blogspot.com>headius.blogspot.com >JRuby Developer @ <http://jruby.sourceforge.net>jruby.sourceforge.net >Application Architect @ <http://www.ventera.com>www.ventera.com >_______________________________________________ >Jruby-devel mailing list >Jruby-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jruby-devel _______________________________________________ Jruby-devel mailing list Jruby-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jruby-devel
