Refactor hiredis GVL unlocking and reconnection

redis-rb / redis-client

Simple low level client for Redis 6+

MIT License

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Closed casperisfine closed 1 year ago

casperisfine commented 1 year ago

Especially for hiredis connection, these objects are expensive.

So it's preferable to reconnect using that same object than to free all that memory to reallocate it later.

This also properly release the GVL in a couple situations it wasn't before (connect and close).