Bug#480440: ITP: libfastthread-ruby -- extension which re-implements the primitives in

[Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>]

On 09/05/08 at 18:56 -0700, Sebastien Delafond wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Sebastien Delafond <seb@debian.org>
> 
> 
> * Package name    : libfastthread-ruby
>   Version         : 1.0.1
>   Upstream Author : mental@rydia.net
> * URL             : http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongrel/
> * License         : Ruby License
>   Programming Lang: Ruby
>   Description     : extension which re-implements the primitives in Ruby's thread.rb in C

This is useless. See #472500 and #472702.

> fastthread is a Ruby extension which re-implements the primitives in
> Ruby's thread.rb in C.  It was merged into 1.8.6, replacing the old
> thread.rb implementation, but the version that was merged had a couple
> serious bugs.

If I were you, I would be suspcicious when someone claims that something
has "a couple of serious bugs" without pointing to anything specific.
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