Re: fastthread -- what is it?

 On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 07:05 -0800, Zed A. Shaw wrote:
> What mentalguy did is re-create all of the Ruby thread locking gear in
> a C extension called fastthread.  With fastthread we can provide a
> modest speed boost as well as fix the memory leaks Ruby has by just
> including a gem.  He's pushing for it to become the new thread locking
> api in Ruby, so  hopefully he can get it in without much fuss.

Interestingly, the original reason for fastthread was to help wean
people off of Thread.critical/Thread.exclusive by making
Mutex#lock/Mutex#synchronized competitive with it performance-wise.

Fixing the memory leaks was a rather fortunate side-effect. :)

-mental

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