From: Francis Cianfrocca Date: 2007-11-24T11:12:37+09:00 Subject: Re: Weightless Threads? On Nov 23, 2007 8:02 PM, Daniel Berger wrote: > Also known as "microthreads". > > I remembered this article from a while back: > > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-pythrd.html > > Thoughts? Are there libraries out there for this? Ah, sorry, Dan, I just noticed this was addressed to Ruby-core rather than Ruby-lang. My mistake. EM's lightweight concurrency features are provided as a library, not a core facility. You might look into the "Fibers" feature in 1.9.