From: Ripta Pasay <ruby@...8y.org>
Date: 2008-02-20T05:35:24+09:00
Subject: Re:



On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:01:13 +0900, "David A. Black" <dblack@rubypal.com>
wrote:
> (That last one had both letters but only one newline.)
> 
> I'm not quite sure what all of this adds up to, in terms of predicting
> thread behavior at or near the end of a program. That one can't? :-)
> 
> 
> David
> 
> --


Was order of execution in Thread ever guaranteed? The output, for instance,
is different between my two machines, even on the same version of ruby:

    $ ruby -ve 'Thread.new { puts "a" }; puts "b"'
    ruby 1.9.0 (2008-02-16 revision 3) [i686-linux]
    b

    $ ruby -ve 'Thread.new { puts "a" }; puts "b"'
    ruby 1.9.0 (2008-02-16 revision 3) [i686-darwin8.9.1]
    ba

If I needed to ensure a thread finishes before exiting, I would #join it. 

-Ripta