Comments on: Fibers implemented for Ruby 1.8.{6,7}

By: ARJ

ARJ — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:09:44 +0000

We've modified Joe's 1.8.7p72 fibers patch to work with 1.8.7p174 and 1.8.7p249. It's great and very useful to us.

By: pesco

pesco — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:49:26 +0000

FWIW, I've solved the same problem using Ruby's very own 'Kernel#callcc'. Pros: small (~40 lines), robust, works with any Ruby that has 'callcc', true drop-in replacement (no patching necessary). Cons: Probably less efficient (dependent on the run-time characteristics of the 'callcc' implementation).

So as long as you don't want to create thousands of fibers per second, this is an alternative:
http://www.khjk.org/log/2010/jun/fibr.html

By: Untangling Evented Code with Ruby Fibers - igvita.com

Untangling Evented Code with Ruby Fibers - igvita.com — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:55:51 +0000

[...] should also mention that fibers have been ported to Ruby 1.8, but due to their implementation on top of green threads they incur much larger overhead – in other [...]

By: Fibras: 8 leituras úteis sobre a nova funcionalidade de concorrência do Ruby

Fibras: 8 leituras úteis sobre a nova funcionalidade de concorrência do Ruby — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:42:51 +0000

[...] Fibers implemented for Ruby 1.8.6/7 – Aman Gupta e Joe Damato adquiriram suas faixas pretas de programadores com um conjuntos de patches para as versões 1.8.6 e 1.8.7 do Ruby que implementa fibers nesses interpretadores. Um trabalho impressionante. [...]

By: Ruby Fibers: 8 Useful Reads On Ruby’s New Concurrency Feature

Ruby Fibers: 8 Useful Reads On Ruby’s New Concurrency Feature — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:48:01 +0000

[...] Fibers implemented for Ruby 1.8.6/7 – Aman Gupta and Joe Damato quickly earned their code master badges with a set of patches for Ruby 1.8.6 and 1.8.7 that implemented fibers on those Ruby interpreters. I haven’t tried it myself, but it looks like an impressive piece of work nonetheless. [...]

By: Fibers & Cooperative Scheduling in Ruby - igvita.com

Fibers & Cooperative Scheduling in Ruby - igvita.com — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:44:11 +0000

[...] be scheduled via IO interrupts – no extra context switches, no locks! Joe Damato and Aman Gupta ported the functionality of Fibers to Ruby 1.8.(6|7), and also provide a great example of converting the asynchronous MySQL driver to work in [...]

By: Compilação de pequenas novidades do mundo Ruby - Abril 2009

Compilação de pequenas novidades do mundo Ruby - Abril 2009 — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:20:49 +0000

[...] fazem parte do Ruby 1.9 (pense em algo como os threads do Ruby 1.8 mas sem scheduling). Joe Damato implementou fibers para Ruby 1.8.6 e 1.8.7. Porém, ele altera diretamente o código do MRI, então você tem que ser muito corajoso ou estar [...]

By: Yo Dawg: Using a package management system to install a package management system at time to bleed by Joe Damato

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:24:21 +0000

[...] next PKGBUILD is a bit more intense. It is our PKGBUILD for Ruby, with a bunch of extra patches (fibers, ruby GC patches, and ruby thread bugfixes). pkgname=ruby pkgver=1.8.7_p72 _pkgver=1.8.7-p72 [...]

By: Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don’t Need Separate Posts #22

Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don’t Need Separate Posts #22 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:54:44 +0000

[...] a feature in Ruby 1.9 (think of Ruby 1.8′s threads but strip away the scheduling). Joe Damato has implemented fibers for Ruby 1.8.6 and 1.8.7. It’s a patch directly against the MRI source code though, so you’ll need to be pretty brave or [...]

By: Jay Phillips

Jay Phillips — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:02:10 +0000

Awesome! Keep up the good work!

Any word from Japan on whether this could be accepted into 1.8.8?