ruby VS Concurrent Ruby

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Ruby testing with RSpec

Not parent poster and do not have production YJIT experience. =)

My guess is that you would monitor `RubyVM::YJIT.runtime_stats[:code_region_size]` and/or `RubyVM::YJIT.runtime_stats[:code_gc_count]` so that you can get a feel for a reasonable value for your application, as well as know whether or not the "code GC" is running frequently.

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/master/doc/yjit/yjit.md#pe...

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Not so much a secret but more like a hiding in plain sight: when looking at a commit GitHub will show you the earliest and latest tag (i.e. release) that includes the commit. For example, this commit[1] first appeared in v3_2_0_preview3.

[1]: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/892f350a7db4d2cc99c5061d...

The title is misleading, just like other commenters mentioned. Just check how much indirection "rb_iv_get()" has to make (at the end, it will call [1], which isn't "a light" call). Now, check generated JIT code (in a blog post) for the same action where JIT knows how to shave off unnecessary indirection.

We are comparing apples and oranges here.

[1] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/b635a66e957e4dd3fed83ef1d7...

I'm not sure why, but all the source values are listed here: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/1cc700907d3ad3368272488a6f...

Maybe someone knowledgeable in the underpinnings of Ruby will explain why "class variable" was not hyphenated.

After this, I took a look at the semaphore class in the popular library, concurrent-ruby to see how they implement it, and I learnt about something new: condition variables. And Ruby comes with this included!

https://github.com/ruby-concurrency/concurrent-ruby has great docs if someone is looking for alternatives.

I wonder how this would compare to using concurrent-ruby under ruby 2.7, especially in a real-world setting (where the calls are actually to external services that return and buffer data, instead of just sleep). The author says that he's felt that ruby threads "feel easy to mess up," but I've found that concurrent-ruby makes it pretty simple, and performant enough even with the GIL.

As I could not find a clear example about how to rescue exceptions from Concurrent::Promises (part of the Concurrent Ruby gem ) I read through the documentation and here are two examples: one that documents success case and one that shows what is happening when there is an error.

In a sense the GIL (or actually GVL as it's called in current ruby versions) has already been removed for ruby.

It's only the original MRI Ruby that still has it several over Ruby implementations already removed it. e.g. JRuby.

Concurrent-Ruby[1] is probably a good place to start if you want to work with GVL free ruby on JRuby. It's quite well supported and is currently used by Rails.

If you just want async or non-blocking IO I'd take a look at the Async Gem[2]. It looks pretty solid in Ruby > 3.0 and it's been invited by Matz to be part of the stdlib, which I think is a pretty good endorsement.

For MRI itself I don't think it's likely they'll ever remove the GVL. Ractors are probably a better solution for CPU concurrency in the long run, although I think they're pretty experimental currently.

1. https://github.com/ruby-concurrency/concurrent-ruby

I like how the article exposes you to tools to prove/disprove the problem. I would have hoped it introduced to tools like concurrent ruby and the use of atomics like u/Freeky already mentioned though.

Using conccurrent-ruby, how can I execute a set of promises and then get the results?

I’d highly recommend the concurrent-ruby gem that has implementations of various metaphors of concurrency, from async to promises, as well as edge features such as actors.

You may want to consider using something like concurrent-ruby that provides nice abstractions over multithreading.