Comments on: Fixing Threads in Ruby 1.8: A 2-10x performance boost

By: Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2011.02 released – Phusion Corporate Blog

Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2011.02 released – Phusion Corporate Blog — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:52:33 +0000

[...] zero-copy context switching patch, included as an experimental [...]

By: Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2011.01 released – Phusion Corporate Blog

Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2011.01 released – Phusion Corporate Blog — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:18:38 +0000

[...] zero-copy context switching patch, included as an experimental [...]

By: MTowas

MTowas — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:00:03 +0000

The more details the better! Thanks.

By: Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2010.02 released – Phusion Corporate Blog

Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2010.02 released – Phusion Corporate Blog — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:32:16 +0000

[...] zero-copy context switching patch, included as an experimental [...]

By: Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2010.01 released « Phusion Corporate Blog

Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2010.01 released « Phusion Corporate Blog — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:07:41 +0000

[...] zero-copy context switching patch, included as an experimental [...]

By: links for 2009-12-16 « Bloggitation

links for 2009-12-16 « Bloggitation — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:09:08 +0000

[...] Fixing Threads in Ruby 1.8: A 2-10x performance boost at time to bleed by Joe Damato (tags: ruby tuning programming) [...]

By: State of Ruby VMs: Ruby Renaissance - igvita.com

State of Ruby VMs: Ruby Renaissance - igvita.com — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:04:58 +0000

[...] of MRI Ruby. Combination of MBARI patches, improvements in thread and scheduling overhead by Joe Damato and Aman Gupta, a copy-on-write (COW) fork model, and a tunable GC all contribute to a measurable difference in [...]

By: Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-20090928 released « Phusion Corporate Blog

Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-20090928 released « Phusion Corporate Blog — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:34:31 +0000

[...] Damato and Aman Gupta have created a patch which implements zero-copy context switching in Ruby’s threading system. In Ruby 1.8, whenever Ruby switches context to another thread, it [...]

By: Traveller_Adventure

Traveller_Adventure — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 10:36:19 +0000

This is quite impressive, I am pleased to read this post, keep posts like this coming, you totally rock!
Cheers,
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By: Dominic Mitchell

Dominic Mitchell — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:24:24 +0000

Hmmm, reminds me of the awful bourne shell memory allocation. That used to allocate more memory by catching seg faults.