+1 for implementing Fibers in MacRuby. Rob ---- http://robgleeson.github.com Website http://github.com/robgleeson GitHub r...@flowof.info E-Mail
On 12 Aug 2010, at 21:33, macr...@djc.net wrote: > > I agree (I don't see a performance issue, rather, a compatibility issue) > > While I am certain everyone would agree that 100% compatibility should be the > goal, I am not convinced how "critical" this addition is: > in particular, how difficult is it to do a quick code change? > Unlike basic data types, there are quite a few reasons I don't see Fibers > being a large percentage of any code. > > Does anyone have any truly compelling examples where Fibers are truly the > only/right way to go, vs. an alternate design? > > I don't see them scaling well (see ruby-doc.org) - meaning, their advantage > is restricted in scope. > > e.g. (MSDN) > "In general, fibers do not provide advantages over a well-designed > multithreaded application." > > The term "lightweight" seems to correlate near 1.0 with "fiber" on web > pages... one (not all) of GCD's primary goals in life is: lightweight ... > which makes me think/agree this really boils down to measuring the pain/cost > of having this one feature MIA (e.g. source translation/compatibility) vs. > not... > > -Daniel > > > On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:15:54 -0700 > "Jordan K. Hubbard" <j...@apple.com> wrote: >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
