Jeremy Kemper
2006-Aug-24 20:46 UTC
[Rails] Re: Making rails thread safe, priority or not?
(posting to -core as well.) On 8/24/06, snacktime <snacktime-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > I know there has been a lot of talk about rails and thread safety.Could you point me to these discussions? Maybe I''ve missed it, but I havent'' seen any of the core team talk> about whether they plan on fixing this in the near future or not. It > seems to me that making rails thread safe would do more to enhance > rails then any other single thing that could be done.Why? I''m not under> any illusions, I''m sure it would be a lot of work. But I have to ask > myself the question. If it''s something that will have to be done at > some point, and I think it will, doesn''t it make sense to tackle it > sooner rather than later?Yes, it does. I''m glad you''re pursuing it! So what do the users think? Would you be willing to see work on other> things stopped to get this fixed?No. But handling concurrent requests within a single Ruby process would be wonderful. Also, this isn''t a jab at the developers, I just haven''t seen anyone> ask the question like this before. I''ve seen lots of discussion about > how things are and particular areas in rails that are problematic, but > no statements as to what might be done about it looking towards the > future or what the average rails user thinks about it. > > And I will personally volunteer some of my time to help out if the > decision is made to do something about this.Thanks Chris. I''d start by removing the mutex in Mongrel and patching up any guts that spill out. The greatest benefit I see is reduced memory footprint. By that standard, why aren''t the growing crop of shared Rails hosters pursuing it? jeremy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---