Use "Fiber storage variables" consistently

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Benoit Daloze 2022-12-20 23:02:25 +01:00
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Notes: git 2022-12-20 22:06:14 +00:00
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* - The stacktrace will only include the stack from the Enumerator, not above.
* - Fiber-local variables are *not* inherited inside the Enumerator Fiber,
* which instead starts with no Fiber-local variables.
* - Fiber-scoped variables *are* inherited and are designed
* to handle Enumerator Fibers. Assigning to a Fiber-scope variable
* - Fiber storage variables *are* inherited and are designed
* to handle Enumerator Fibers. Assigning to a Fiber storage variable
* only affects the current Fiber, so if you want to change state
* in the caller Fiber of the Enumerator Fiber, you need to use an
* extra indirection (e.g., use some object in the Fiber-scoped
* extra indirection (e.g., use some object in the Fiber storage
* variable and mutate some ivar of it).
*
* Concretely:
* Thread.current[:fiber_local] = 1
* Fiber[:scoped_var] = 1
* Fiber[:storage_var] = 1
* e = Enumerator.new do |y|
* p Thread.current[:fiber_local] # for external iteration: nil, for internal iteration: 1
* p Fiber[:scoped_var] # => 1, inherited
* Fiber[:scoped_var] += 1
* p Fiber[:storage_var] # => 1, inherited
* Fiber[:storage_var] += 1
* y << 42
* end
*
* p e.next # => 42
* p Fiber[:scoped_var] # => 1 (it ran in a different Fiber)
* p Fiber[:storage_var] # => 1 (it ran in a different Fiber)
*
* e.each { p _1 }
* p Fiber[:scoped_var] # => 2 (it ran in the same Fiber/"stack" as the current Fiber)
* p Fiber[:storage_var] # => 2 (it ran in the same Fiber/"stack" as the current Fiber)
*
* == Convert External Iteration to Internal Iteration
*