Last Week in Pony - January 19, 2025
A new week, a new article about Pony and a new RFC accepted. All this and more in this week’s Last Week in Pony.
Items of Note¶
Preventing data races with Pony¶
A couple weeks back, LWN.net published an article titled “Preventing data races with Pony”. The article is a good introduction to Pony and its capabilities. If you are a current Pony user or a regular reader of Last Week in Pony, you probably won’t get much from it, but hey, it’s news.
Pony Development Sync¶
The recording of the January 14, 2025 Pony Development Sync is available.
Office Hours¶
Office Hours this past week was me helping Red with what changes would be needed to allow the Pony http_server to send back a chunked response when a full request is received. At the moment, the way the server’s handler interface is implemented, once a request is received, you have 1 and only 1 chance to respond. Red found that this was sub-optimal when you want to read a huge file into memory to send to the client.
If you chunked the response, you could end up using a lot less memory in return for a slightly longer response time. The change identified is relatively small and should be easy to implement. Red is going to take a stab at it and we’ll see how it goes.
RFCs¶
Accepted¶
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