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Issue #14739 has been updated by ioquatix (Samuel Williams).


@cremes Thanks for your positive feedback and linking me to related issues.

The coroutine implementation was specifically designed to handle cross-thread migrations, in the sense that all the required state to yield/resume is passed as arguments/returns to/from the coroutine.

What this means is that no global/thread-local state is required and thus when moving a coroutine to another thread, there is almost no additional data to sync which is nice from an API point of view.

The bigger challenge is how Ruby Fiber is implemented. It does make it tricky. I would be happy to work towards this. I see the following path being viable:

- Merge these changes.
- Simplify the Fiber implementation by removing all the other implementations from `cont.c` and if necessary move these to the coroutine code (but ideally remove them).
- With the simplified Fiber code base, explore the overheads of Fiber creation/context switching and figure out the right places to put locking/checks (e.g. for locks being held, etc).

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Feature #14739: Improve fiber yield/resume performance
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14739#change-72432

* Author: ioquatix (Samuel Williams)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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I am interested to improve Fiber yield/resume performance.

I've used this library before: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libcoro.html and handled millions of HTTP requests using it.

I'd suggest to use that library.

As this is used in many places in Ruby (e.g. enumerable) it could be a big performance win across the board.

Here is a nice summary of what was done for RethinkDB: https://rethinkdb.com/blog/making-coroutines-fast/

Does Ruby currently reuse stacks? This is also a big performance win if it's not being done already.



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