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Working with Ruby’s GVL

Adam Keys Code, Curated October 27, 2012 0 Minutes

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.

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Published October 27, 2012

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