Steve,
check the mailing list for info about this: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/196083

There's info on this at the home page you posted as well.

And yes, its snappier.


Cheers,
Johan

On 30 nov 2009, at 16.00, Steve wrote:

>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:55:40 +0300
>> Von: Igor Sysoev <igor@sysoev.ru>
>> An: nginx@nginx.org
>> Betreff: Re: nginx-0.8.29
>
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 03:51:40PM +0100, Steve wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>>>> Datum: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:32:41 +0300
>>>> Von: Igor Sysoev <igor@sysoev.ru>
>>>> An: nginx@nginx.org
>>>> Betreff: Re: nginx-0.8.29
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 02:55:00PM +0100, Steve wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> *) Feature: the --with-libatomic[=DIR] option in the
>> configure.
>>>>>> Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
>>>>>>
>>>>> What is this libatomic? Is it this here ->
>>>> http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/atomic_ops/
>>>>
>>>> Yes.
>>>>
>>> Is that needed if one is using GCC >= 4.1? Or is this already used (in
>> some way) by this here:
>>>> *) Feature: GCC 4.1+ built-in atomic operations usage.
>>>> Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
>>
>> If GCC supports atomic operations, then nginx uses them. Otherwise, it
>> uses
>> own atomic operations for i386, amd64, sparc32/64, ppc32/64.
>>
>> You may force to use libatomic, if you do not like GCC atomic operations.
>>
> Okay. I understand. Is there any benefit using libatomic?
>
>
>>
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