Bug#472500: Bug#472702: ruby1.8: thread implementation has "a couple serious bugs"

[Daigo Moriwaki <beatles@sgtpepper.net>]

Hi Matt,

Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> > I don't know detail of the problem.
>
> Unfortunately neither do I. I was taking Capistrano and the ruby-talk
> thread's "word" that there was a problem.

I asked ruby-dev and Nakada-san replied.
He said that Ruby 1.8.6 p110 was merged (backport) with fastthread, and that the 
current situation is opposite. fastthread 1.0.1 does not yet fix an issue that 
Ruby 1.8.6 p110 has fixed. You should not use fastthread 1.0.1 with Ruby 1.8.6 
p110 or later. So, you don't have to care about fastthread. Use Debian's latest 
Ruby package.

Sorry, I don't know what the issue is, though.


Regards,
Daigo

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Daigo Moriwaki
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