From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-11-12T08:33:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19859] Re: use of require thread safety

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:19855] Re: use of require thread safety"
    on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:10:46 +0900, Thomas Enebo <Thomas.Enebo@Sun.COM> writes:

|> |It would break code that's doing what it shouldn't, i.e. requiring the 
|> |same lib across several threads. So don't do that :)
|>
|> Isn't that unavoidable when combined with autoload?

|Autoload, in general, is a bad idea in a multiple thread environment.

I agree.  But sometimes it's up to library author's choice, not ours.

							matz.