Visualising the Ruby Global VM Lock. A nice commit-by-commit look at how extensions for Ruby 1.9 work with the GVL, what that looks like as tests run, and how to release the GVL to allow for better parallelism.
Visualising the Ruby Global VM Lock. A nice commit-by-commit look at how extensions for Ruby 1.9 work with the GVL, what that looks like as tests run, and how to release the GVL to allow for better parallelism.
