From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2008-12-04T09:56:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20279] Re: autoload and concurrency

>> All things are possible...but many require behavioral changes to Ruby.
>>
>> - Charlie

looks like this has been discussed before [on the todo list since 2000 [1]].

Another "band aid" style option might perhaps be to allow the 'load'
file to know which autoload constant triggered it, then it could do
its own concurrency.
ex:
autoload_new :ConstantName, 'thread_safe_require'
then when autoload kicks in, it sets "something" [$something,
whatever] to 'ConstantName'
then
'thread_safe_require' would be able to hopefully load it sanely, if so desired.

Perhaps create new functions load_thread_safe and/or maybe
require_thread_safe :)

Thoughts?

-=R
[1] http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/4589