The Future of fastthread
Thursday March 19 2009, 07:26 PM
fastthread has pretty much outlived its usefulness at this point; it is no longer really necessary on the most recent versions of Ruby 1.8, and things depending on fastthread is actually a hinderance on JRuby and Ruby 1.9 and so forth. A number of gracious people have contributed patches to make fastthread installable as a noop package on those platforms, and before that I actually prepared fastthread 1.0.3 last June, but it was never packaged.
Worse, Mongrel’s SVN also appears to have lost the revisions I originally pushed to it (which I know I did, because the revisions had git-svn revnos). So, I’ve put fastthread up on github and have released 1.0.3 myself.