On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:23 PM, easco wrote:

> My concern for the feature is focused not so much on the performance impact 
> of using it, as it focuses on the fact that Fibers have been added to the 
> 1.9.x language. They appear to be an important part of the External 
> Enumerators feature and that feature seems to have a lot of people very 
> excited.
> 
> Any external libraries that make use of Fibers or External Enumerators stand 
> a good chance of not working in MacRuby. In that case MacRuby becomes 
> "Mac-MostOfRuby" which makes it harder to adopt... etc.  I'd rather that 
> didn't happen.

Perhaps the big take-away from this discussion then is that we need someone to 
pick up the gauntlet of Fiber support in MacRuby and figure out how to make it 
perform "acceptably" given the caveats Laurent has already outlined.  Any 
volunteers?

- Jordan

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