Release notes for 0.3:
Many more bug fixes. Speed is now basically comparable to Bram‘s
client—at least in my limited experiments.
The following are known issues with this release:
- Ruby threads don‘t play well with curses. Non-blocking getch hangs.
See [ruby-talk:130620]. So we use ncurses.
- Ruby threads don‘t play well with TCP sockets on Windows. There is a
20-second global freeze every time an outgoing connection is made to
a non-responsive host. See [ruby-talk:129578], [ruby-core:04364]. As you
can imagine, this can be quite a performance hit in a program that can make
potentially hundreds of such connections. In fact, it renders RubyTorrent almost useless on
Windows. A patch exists (indeed, has existed for many months), and if I bug
Matz maybe it‘ll get in to 1.8.3. :)
- Ruby threads don‘t play well with writing data over TCP sockets. At
least, that‘s what I glean from [ruby-talk:130480], and it might
explain the occasional freezing behavior I see (3 to 30 seconds, sporadic)
under heavy loads in Linux.
Other than that :) everything works. I think.