Understood.
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 7:00 AM, <[email protected] > wrote: > Send MacRuby-devel mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of MacRuby-devel digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Threads and iPhone (Brad Hutchins) > 2. Re: Threads and iPhone (Vincent Isambart) > 3. Re: Threads and iPhone (Laurent Sansonetti) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:39:07 -0800 > From: "Brad Hutchins" <[email protected]> > Subject: [MacRuby-devel] Threads and iPhone > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Will it be easier to implement and manage multithreaded apps with MacRuby? > > And will MacRuby be eventually rolled into iphone Dev? Or is this one of > those sensitive Apple NDA iPhone issues? > > Thanx > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macruby-devel/attachments/20081227/9612a641/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:17:02 +0900 > From: "Vincent Isambart" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MacRuby-devel] Threads and iPhone > To: "MacRuby development discussions." > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > Will it be easier to implement and manage multithreaded apps with > MacRuby? > MacRuby's threads are exactly the same as Ruby 1.9. Nothing less nothing > more. > When you say "easier", if you mean easier than ObjC perhaps a little > bit, but that's all. > > > And will MacRuby be eventually rolled into iphone Dev? Or is this one of > > those sensitive Apple NDA iPhone issues? > I think Laurent would not be able to reply about this one, but it > looks like you should not wait too much for an iPhone version of > MacRuby. > First, the iPhone is much slower than a Mac so MacRuby would be a > little slow. An other problem is that autozone (the GC used in ObjC 2 > and MacRuby) does not seem to have an ARM version. Of course it's > probably doable (and maybe someone in Apple is working on it, I have > no idea) but well for the time being I would not count on it. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:36:15 -0800 > From: Laurent Sansonetti <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MacRuby-devel] Threads and iPhone > To: "MacRuby development discussions." > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > On Dec 27, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Vincent Isambart wrote: > > >> Will it be easier to implement and manage multithreaded apps with > >> MacRuby? > > MacRuby's threads are exactly the same as Ruby 1.9. Nothing less > > nothing more. > > When you say "easier", if you mean easier than ObjC perhaps a little > > bit, but that's all. > > That's true, MacRuby trunk uses YARV, and its thread model is simple, > it maps every Ruby thread as a POSIX thread but still maintain a > global lock around them. > > However, in the next version of MacRuby (0.5) this will significantly > change. Stay tuned for more information regarding 0.5, in the next few > days. > > >> And will MacRuby be eventually rolled into iphone Dev? Or is this > >> one of > >> those sensitive Apple NDA iPhone issues? > > I think Laurent would not be able to reply about this one, but it > > looks like you should not wait too much for an iPhone version of > > MacRuby. > > First, the iPhone is much slower than a Mac so MacRuby would be a > > little slow. An other problem is that autozone (the GC used in ObjC 2 > > and MacRuby) does not seem to have an ARM version. Of course it's > > probably doable (and maybe someone in Apple is working on it, I have > > no idea) but well for the time being I would not count on it. > > The iPhone cannot be discussed on this list. However, as Vincent > stated, there are some technical restrictions that prevent MacRuby to > fully work on the iPhone, today. But tomorrow is another day :-) > > Laurent > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > > End of MacRuby-devel Digest, Vol 10, Issue 35 > ********************************************* >
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