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[ruby-core:102537] [Ruby master Feature#17592] Ractor should allowing reading shareable class instance variables

From: eregontp@...
Date: 2021-02-16 12:45:18 UTC
List: ruby-core #102537
Issue #17592 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze).


ko1 (Koichi Sasada) wrote in #note-16:
> OK, you meant sharable or not, but not about class/module (class/module are typical cases, though).

Isn't it actually only about class/module though?
For a `Fixnum` or a `Ractor.make_shareable(Object.new)`, it's allowed to read @ivars. And it's a regular FrozenError to try to write an @ivar since they are frozen.

But for class/module, and I think only for those, it's currently not allowed to even read @ivars, even though class/module are considered shareable.

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Feature #17592: Ractor should allowing reading shareable class instance variables
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17592#change-90437

* Author: marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: ko1 (Koichi Sasada)
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It would be very helpful if Ractor was allowing reading class instance variables from non-main Ractor.


Currently is raises an IsolationError:

```ruby
module Foo
  singleton_class.attr_accessor :config
  Foo.config = {example: 42}.freeze
end

Ractor.new { p Foo.config } # => IsolationError
```

This limitation makes it challenging to have an efficient way to store general configs, i.e. global data that mutated a few times when resources get loaded but it immutable afterwards, and needs to be read all the time.

Currently the only way to do this is to use a constant and use `remove_const` + `const_set` (which can not be made atomic easily).

I think that allowing reading only may be the best solution to avoid any race condition, e.g. two different Ractors that call `@counter += 1`.

The only 3 scenarios I see here are:
0) declare the constant hack the official way to store config-style data
1) allow reading of instance variables for shareable objects (as long as the data is shareable)
2) allow read-write

I prefer 1)



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