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Do you think we as a community should be pushing for a potential rewrite of MRI to get rid of the GIL? I feel as if the GIL is what is limiting true ruby perfor
by rockasaur 13y ago
Do you think we as a community should be pushing for a potential rewrite of MRI to get rid of the GIL? I feel as if the GIL is what is limiting true ruby performance.
It also seems like Matz and ruby core team don't really give a shit about performance.
It is very possible to achieve a high level of performance on an interpreted language!!
- jdminhbg 13y agoIf you want a GIL-less Ruby, check out Rubinius: http://rubini.us/2013/03/19/pdx-summit-recap/ http://rubini.us/2013/03/19/pdx-summit-recap/
- Spakman 13y agoI don't think that it's true that the core developers don't care about performance at all. There's an argument that removing the GIL would require a lot of effort for little gain (and in some cases decreased performance). It's just not a priority for them. Of course, every use case is different (sometimes very different), but I haven't ever hit a problem that has caused me to curse the GIL.