Issue #19236 has been reported by byroot (Jean Boussier).
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Feature #19236: Allow to create hashes with a specific capacity from Ruby
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19236
* Author: byroot (Jean Boussier)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Target version: 3.3
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Followup on [Feature #18683] which added a C-API for this purpose.
Various protocol parsers such as Redis `RESP3` or `msgpack`, have to create hashes, and they know the size in advance.
For efficiency, it would be preferable if they could directly allocate a Hash of the necessary size, so that large hashes wouldn't cause many re-alloccations and re-hash.
`String` and `Array` both already offer similar APIs:
```ruby
String.new(capacity: XXX)
Array.new(XX) / rb_ary_new_capa(long)
```
However there's no such public API for Hashes in Ruby land.
### Proposal
I think `Hash` should have a way to create a new hash with a `capacity` parameter.
The logical signature of `Hash.new(capacity: 1000)` was deemed too incompatible in [Feature #18683].
@Eregon proposed to add `Hash.create(capacity: 1000)`.
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Issue #19161 has been reported by werebus (Matt Moretti).
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Bug #19161: Cannot compile 3.0.5 or 3.1.3 on Red Hat 7
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19161
* Author: werebus (Matt Moretti)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN
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When attempting to run `make` on either the 3.0.5 or 3.1.3 release, I get the following error (I included the whole output as it's pretty short):
```
BASERUBY = /opt/ruby/bin/ruby --disable=gems
CC = gcc -std=gnu11
LD = ld
LDSHARED = gcc -std=gnu11 -shared
CFLAGS = -O3 -fno-fast-math -ggdb3 -Wall -Wextra -Wdeprecated-declarations -Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wimplicit-int -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-noreturn -Wno-cast-function-type -Wno-constant-logical-operand -Wno-long-long -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-overlength-strings -Wno-packed-bitfield-compat -Wno-parentheses-equality -Wno-self-assign -Wno-tautological-compare -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unused-value -Wsuggest-attribute=format -Wsuggest-attribute=noreturn -Wunused-variable
XCFLAGS = -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong -fno-strict-overflow -fvisibility=hidden -fexcess-precision=standard -DRUBY_EXPORT -fPIE -I. -I.ext/include/x86_64-linux -I./include -I. -I./enc/unicode/13.0.0
CPPFLAGS =
DLDFLAGS = -Wl,--compress-debug-sections=zlib -fstack-protector-strong -pie
SOLIBS = -lz -lpthread -lrt -lrt -ldl -lcrypt -lm
LANG = en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL =
LC_CTYPE =
MFLAGS =
gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44)
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
compiling ./main.c
compiling dmydln.c
compiling miniinit.c
In file included from vm_core.h:83:0,
from iseq.h:14,
from mini_builtin.c:3,
from miniinit.c:51:
thread_pthread.h:108:43: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘struct’
RUBY_EXTERN RB_THREAD_LOCAL_SPECIFIER struct rb_execution_context_struct *ruby_current_ec;
^
In file included from iseq.h:14:0,
from mini_builtin.c:3,
from miniinit.c:51:
vm_core.h: In function ‘rb_current_execution_context’:
vm_core.h:1870:34: error: ‘ruby_current_ec’ undeclared (first use in this function)
rb_execution_context_t *ec = ruby_current_ec;
^
vm_core.h:1870:34: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
miniinit.c: At top level:
cc1: warning: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-tautological-compare" [enabled by default]
cc1: warning: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-self-assign" [enabled by default]
cc1: warning: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-parentheses-equality" [enabled by default]
cc1: warning: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-constant-logical-operand" [enabled by default]
cc1: warning: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-cast-function-type" [enabled by default]
make: *** [miniinit.o] Error 1
```
Both Ruby 3.0.4 and 3.1.2 build without error and pass (all but one of) the `make check` tests.
I know RHEL 7 is getting to be pretty old; I suspect a factor here are the ancient build tools available to me. But... EOL for Ruby 2.7 comes before the one for RHEL 7, so I'm trying to prioritize.
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Issue #19231 has been reported by andrykonchin (Andrew Konchin).
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Bug #19231: Integer#step and Float::INFINITY - inconsistent behaviour when called with and without a block
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19231
* Author: andrykonchin (Andrew Konchin)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* ruby -v: 3.1.2
* Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN
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The initial issue was reported here https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby/issues/2797.
`0.step(Float::INFINITY, 10)` returns:
- `Integers` when called with a block
- `Floats` when called without a block
I would expect `Floats` to be returned in both cases.
Examples:
```ruby
0.step(100.0, 10).take(1).map(&:class)
# => [Float]
```
```ruby
0.step(Float::INFINITY, 10) { |offset| p offset.class; break }
# Integer
```
When `to` argument is a finite `Float` value then calling with a block returns `Floats` as well:
```ruby
0.step(100.0, 10) { |offset| p offset.class; break }
# Float
```
Wondering whether it's intentional behaviour.
I've found a related issue https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15518.
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Issue #19365 has been reported by luke-gru (Luke Gruber).
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Bug #19365: Ractors can access non-shareable values through enumerators
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19365
* Author: luke-gru (Luke Gruber)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN
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I don't think enumerators should be able to be passed to `Ractor.new`
```ruby
obj = Object.new # unshareable value
p obj
Ractor.new([obj].each) {|f| p f.first }.take
```
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Issue #19395 has been reported by luke-gru (Luke Gruber).
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Bug #19395: Process forking within non-main Ractor creates child stuck in busy loop
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19395
* Author: luke-gru (Luke Gruber)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN
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```ruby
def test_fork_in_ractor
r2 = Ractor.new do
pid = fork do
exit Ractor.count
end
pid
end
pid = r2.take
puts "Process #{Process.pid} waiting for #{pid}"
_pid, status = Process.waitpid2(pid) # stuck forever
if status.exitstatus != 1
raise "status is #{status.exitstatus}"
end
end
test_fork_in_ractor()
```
$ top # shows CPU usage is high for child process
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Issue #19408 has been reported by luke-gru (Luke Gruber).
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Bug #19408: Object no longer frozen after moved from a ractor
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19408
* Author: luke-gru (Luke Gruber)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN
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I think frozen objects should still be frozen after a move.
```ruby
r = Ractor.new do
obj = receive
p obj.frozen? # should be true but is false
p obj
end
obj = [Object.new].freeze
r.send(obj, move: true)
r.take
```
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Issue #19542 has been reported by hanazuki (Kasumi Hanazuki).
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Bug #19542: Operations on zero-sized IO::Buffer are raising
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19542
* Author: hanazuki (Kasumi Hanazuki)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* ruby -v: ruby 3.2.1 (2023-02-08 revision 31819e82c8) [x86_64-linux]
* Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN
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I found that IO::Buffer of zero length is not cloneable.
```
% ruby -v
ruby 3.2.1 (2023-02-08 revision 31819e82c8) [x86_64-linux]
% ruby -e 'p IO::Buffer.for("").dup'
-e:1:in `initialize_copy': The buffer is not allocated! (IO::Buffer::AllocationError)
from -e:1:in `initialize_dup'
from -e:1:in `dup'
from -e:1:in `<main>'
% ruby -e 'p IO::Buffer.new(0).dup'
-e:1: warning: IO::Buffer is experimental and both the Ruby and C interface may change in the future!
-e:1:in `initialize_copy': The buffer is not allocated! (IO::Buffer::AllocationError)
from -e:1:in `initialize_dup'
from -e:1:in `dup'
from -e:1:in `<main>'
```
It seems `IO::Buffer.new(0)` allocates no memory for buffer on object creation and thus prohibits reading from or writing to it. So `#dup` method copying zero bytes into the new IO::Buffer raises the exception.
Empty buffers, however, often appear in corner cases of usual operations (encrypting an empty string, encoding an empty list of items into binary, etc.) and it would be easy if such cases could be handled consistently.
Other operations on NULL IO::Buffers are also useful but currently raising.
```
IO::Buffer.new(0) <=> IO::Buffer.new(1)
IO::Buffer.new(0).each(:U8).to_a
IO::Buffer.new(0).get_values([], 0)
IO::Buffer.new(0).set_values([], 0, [])
```
I'm not sure this is a bug or by design, but at least I don't want cloning and comparison to raise.
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Issue #19461 has been reported by ioquatix (Samuel Williams).
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Bug #19461: Time.local performance tanks in forked process (on macOS only?)
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19461
* Author: ioquatix (Samuel Williams)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN
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The following program demonstrates a performance regression in forked child processes when invoking `Time.local`:
```ruby
require 'benchmark'
require 'time'
def sir_local_alot
result = Benchmark.measure do
10_000.times do
tm = ::Time.local(2023)
end
end
$stderr.puts result
end
sir_local_alot
pid = fork do
sir_local_alot
end
Process.wait(pid)
```
On Linux the performance is similar, but on macOS, the performance is over 100x worse on my M1 laptop.
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Issue #19246 has been reported by thomthom (Thomas Thomassen).
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Bug #19246: Rebuilding the loaded feature index much slower in Ruby 3.1
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19246
* Author: thomthom (Thomas Thomassen)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN
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Some background to this issue: (This is a case that is unconventional usage of Ruby, but I hope you bear with me.)
We ship the Ruby interpreter with our desktop applications for plugin support in our application (SketchUp).
One feature we have had since, at least 2006 (maybe earlier-hard to track history beyond that) is that we had a custom alternate `require` method: `Sketchup.require`. This allows the users of our API to load encrypted Ruby files.
This originally used `rb_provide` to add the path to the encrypted file into the list of loaded feature. However, somewhere between Ruby 2.2 and 2.5 there was some string optimisations made and the function `rb_provide` would not use a copy of the string passed to it. Instead it just held on to a pointer reference. In our case that string came from user-land, being passed in from `Sketchup.require` and would eventually be garbage collected and cause access violation crashes.
To work around that we changed our custom `Sketchup.require` to push to `$LOADED_FEATURES` directly. There was a small penalty to the index being rebuilt after that, but it was negligible.
Recently we tried to upgrade the Ruby interpreter in our application from 2.7 to 3.1 and found a major performance reduction when using our `Sketchup.require. As in, a plugin that would load in half a second would now spend 30 seconds.
From https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18452 it sounds like there is _some_ expected extra penalty due to changes in how the index is built. But should it really be this much?
Example minimal repro to simulate the issue:
```
# frozen_string_literal: true
require 'benchmark'
iterations = 200
foo_files = iterations.times.map { |i| "#{__dir__}/tmp/foo-#{i}.rb" }
foo_files.each { |f| File.write(f, "") }
bar_files = iterations.times.map { |i| "#{__dir__}/tmp/bar-#{i}.rb" }
bar_files.each { |f| File.write(f, "") }
biz_files = iterations.times.map { |i| "#{__dir__}/tmp/biz-#{i}.rb" }
biz_files.each { |f| File.write(f, "") }
Benchmark.bm do |x|
x.report('normal') {
foo_files.each { |file|
require file
}
}
x.report('loaded_features') {
foo_files.each { |file|
require file
$LOADED_FEATURES << "#{file}-fake.rb"
}
}
x.report('normal again') {
biz_files.each { |file|
require file
}
}
end
```
```
C:\Users\Thomas\SourceTree\ruby-perf>ruby27.bat
ruby 2.7.4p191 (2021-07-07 revision a21a3b7d23) [x64-mingw32]
C:\Users\Thomas\SourceTree\ruby-perf>ruby test-require.rb
user system total real
normal 0.000000 0.031000 0.031000 ( 0.078483)
loaded_features 0.015000 0.000000 0.015000 ( 0.038759)
normal again 0.016000 0.032000 0.048000 ( 0.076940)
```
```
C:\Users\Thomas\SourceTree\ruby-perf>ruby30.bat
ruby 2.7.4p191 (2021-07-07 revision a21a3b7d23) [x64-mingw32]
C:\Users\Thomas\SourceTree\ruby-perf>ruby test-require.rb
user system total real
normal 0.000000 0.031000 0.031000 ( 0.074733)
loaded_features 0.032000 0.000000 0.032000 ( 0.038898)
normal again 0.000000 0.047000 0.047000 ( 0.076343)
```
```
C:\Users\Thomas\SourceTree\ruby-perf>ruby31.bat
ruby 3.1.2p20 (2022-04-12 revision 4491bb740a) [x64-mingw-ucrt]
C:\Users\Thomas\SourceTree\ruby-perf>ruby test-require.rb
user system total real
normal 0.016000 0.031000 0.047000 ( 0.132633)
loaded_features 1.969000 11.500000 13.469000 ( 18.395761)
normal again 0.031000 0.125000 0.156000 ( 0.249130)
```
Right now we're exploring options to deal with this. Because the performance degradation is a blocker for us upgrading. We also have 16 years of plugins created by third party developer that makes it impossible for us to drop this feature.
Some options as-is, none of which are ideal:
1. We revert to using `rb_provide` but ensure the string passed in is not owned by Ruby, instead building a list of strings that we keep around for the duration of the application process. The problem is that some of our plugin developers have on occasion released plugins that will touch `$LOADED_FEATURES`, and if such a plugin is installed on a user machine it might cause the application to become unresponsive for minutes. The other non-ideal issue with using `rb_provide` is that we're also using that in ways it wasn't really intended (from that I understand). And it's not an official API?
2. We create a separate way for our `Sketchup.require` to keep track of it's loaded features, but then that would diverge even more from the behaviour of `require`. Replicating `require` functionality is not trivial and would be prone to subtle errors and possible diverge. It also doesn't address our issue that there is code out there in existing plugins that touches `$LOADED_FEATURES`. (And it's not something we can just ask people to clean up. From previous experience old versions stick around for a long time and is very hard to purge from circulation.)
I have two questions for the Ruby mantainers:
1. Would it be reasonable to see an API for adding/removing/checking `$LOADED_FEATURE` that would allow for a more ideal implementation of a custom `require` functionality?
2. Is the performance difference in rebuilding the loaded feature index really expected to be as high as what we're seeing? An increase of nearly 100 times? Is there something there that might be addressed to make the rebuild to be less expensive against? (This would really help to address our challenges with third party plugins occasionally touching the global.)
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Issue #19387 has been reported by luke-gru (Luke Gruber).
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Bug #19387: Issue with ObjectSpace.each_objects not returning IO objects after starting a ractor
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19387
* Author: luke-gru (Luke Gruber)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN
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```ruby
r = Ractor.new do
receive # block, the problem is not the termination of the ractor but the starting
end
ObjectSpace.each_object(IO) { |io|
p io # we get no objects
}
```
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