Why not continuations instead?
On Aug 24, 2006, at 1:46 PM, Jeremy Kemper wrote:
> (posting to -core as well.)
>
> On 8/24/06, snacktime <snacktime@gmail.com> 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
>
> >
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