Sorry, for those of us that don't know, how does this relate to Mongrel? I'm not really clear on that from your message.
Sounds cool though. On Jan 18, 2007, at 4:51 PM, MenTaLguY wrote: > It looks like I got too creative in 0.6.1 and consequently ran > afoul of > a bug in the Ruby interpreter. 0.6.2 works around the bug and > should be > entirely stable at this point. > > Thanks to Young Hyun for his help in coming up with test cases. > > == what? > > fastthread is a Ruby library which provides a faster (and > non-memory-leaking) C implementation of the concurrency primitives > from > stdlib's thread.rb. It aims to be 100% compatible with thread.rb's > public API. > > So, how much faster? In the single-threaded case, fastthread's > version > of Mutex#lock and Mutex#synchronize are comparable in performance to > Thread.critical= and Thread.exclusive. With multiple threads, it > has an > additional advantage over Thread.critical in that entering a critical > section doesn't suspend any other threads unless they're competing for > the same lock. (Compare that to Thread.critical, which stops all > other > threads dead!) > > I know a lot of folks have been avoiding stdlib's Mutex because all > the > method calls killed performance. But no more, with fastthread! > Why use > Thread.critical when you can use the real thing? > > == how? > > Simply require 'fastthread' in addition to 'thread'. If you want to > make fastthread optional (recommended!), do it this way: > > require 'thread' > begin > require 'fastthread' > rescue LoadError > end > > This way, your program will still work on systems that don't have (or > don't need -- e.g. JRuby) fastthread, but you still get a performance > boost on systems where it's available. > > == where? > > Gem: > http://moonbase.rydia.net/software/optimized-locking/ > fastthread-0.6.2.gem > > Tarball: > http://moonbase.rydia.net/software/optimized-locking/ > fastthread-0.6.2.tgz > > fastthread is also available on Rubyforge (and therefore the main gems > repository), courtesy of the Mongrel project: > > https://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1306 > > -mental > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
