[ruby-oci8-devel] propose to implement pooling technology for Ruby-OCI8

[KUBO Takehiro]

Hi,

On Jan 21, 2008 7:58 PM, shiwei zhang <shiwei.zhang at oracle.com> wrote:

>  Many thanks to your explanation. Yet if it's Ruby1.9, which has brought
> Native Threads into Ruby, do you also think it's necessary to execute
> time-consuming operation in rb_thread_blocking_region()?

Yes.

> Probably yes I
> think, because Ruby (even Ruby1.9) interpreter is using  GIL (Global
> Interpreter Lock).

FYI, ruby's term is GVL not GIL. GVL is Giant VM Lock (line 17
in thread.c) or Global VM Lock (line 26 in thread.c). I don't
know which is correct.

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/thread.c?view=markup