Hi Scott, On Aug 11, 2010, at 5:23 AM, Louis-Philippe wrote: > Hi Scott, > > If you haven't done so already, you might want to have a look at: > http://www.macruby.org/documentation/gcd.html > > it speaks of MacRuby integrating Apple's latest multi-threading strategy: > Grand Central Dispatch.
I might also humbly suggest the Dispatch documentation: http://github.com/masterkain/macruby/tree/master/lib/dispatch/ :-) E > > 2010/8/10 Scott Thompson <ea...@mac.com> > I recently had a discussion on a separate list about Coroutines and > Cooperative Multitasking on Mac OS X. The general result of that discussion > was that the "best" solutions were to either rely on the (deprecated) Carbon > Thread Manager, use a more complex scheme involving pthreads and semaphores > to emulate cooperative multitasking, or look at a third party library which > uses hand-rolled assembly to replace the (deprecated, non-POSIX) makecontext, > swapcontext and friends. > > In the course of that discussion, I looked to see how MacRuby might be > implementing Fibers (which is a coroutines mechanism similar to the one I was > looking for) and found that, at the moment, it doesn't. The Fiber code is > commented out (at least in the few places in the source I looked at). > > Have you given some thought as to how that feature might be implemented? > > I suppose with the Ruby interpreter that the "co-routine" might be handled > using internal features of the interpreter itself (the "green threads", > fabled in song and story). At the same time, it seems like all the work that > went into improving Ruby's threading system as implemented by MacRuby might > have made it harder to use the "green threads". > > I'm more curious than anything else, but has someone thought of a clever way > to handle cooperative multitasking in MacRuby? > > Scott > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
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