[MacRuby-devel] Fibers and Enumerators

Jordan K. Hubbard jkh at apple.com
Wed Aug 11 17:15:54 PDT 2010


On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:23 PM, easco wrote:

> My concern for the feature is focused not so much on the performance impact of using it, as it focuses on the fact that Fibers have been added to the 1.9.x language. They appear to be an important part of the External Enumerators feature and that feature seems to have a lot of people very excited.
> 
> Any external libraries that make use of Fibers or External Enumerators stand a good chance of not working in MacRuby. In that case MacRuby becomes "Mac-MostOfRuby" which makes it harder to adopt... etc.  I'd rather that didn't happen.

Perhaps the big take-away from this discussion then is that we need someone to pick up the gauntlet of Fiber support in MacRuby and figure out how to make it perform "acceptably" given the caveats Laurent has already outlined.  Any volunteers?

- Jordan



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