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Andrew Grimm
Andrew Grimm

Reputation: 81520

How parallel are parallel tests in Ruby 1.9.3?

In Ruby 1.9.3, you're allowed to run multiple test cases at once. I'm not sure whether this is a feature of the language, the minitest library, or a feature of YARV, so apologies for any bad terminology.

But have they eliminated the GVL for this, or does this merely mean that if one thread's doing IO, another thread can utilize the CPU?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 1287

Answers (1)

Tom De Leu
Tom De Leu

Reputation: 8274

The implementation doesn't use threads, but separate processes communicating through pipes. See e.g. this presentation. So the GVL/GIL doesn't come into play.

Upvotes: 7

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