From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-11-16T12:14:48+09:00
Subject: Re: state of threads in 1.9

Jordi wrote:
> It is really bad news for me. My application is really heavy threaded
> and even with only 2 or 4 cores I wanted to use them (you may think
> that Ruby is not the right language for that anyway ...). I guess I
> can use C++ and Qt library (my option number two after ruby,
> suggestions accepted)

You may wish to try JRuby, which allows concurrent native threading. In 
1.1 we're trying to tidy up the core classes to be entirely thread-safe, 
but if you take care not to manipulate the same data structures in 
unsafe ways you can run Ruby code concurrently without many issues in JRuby.

- Charlie