From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: 2012-02-22T14:05:55+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:42797] Re: 500 reputation stackoverflow question about Ruby GIL 2012/2/21 Grigory Petrov : > Hello. > > I have failed to find any information on my problem, so maybe anyone > will claim 500 reputation award on stackoverflow by explaining why > Ruby hangs with GUI used alongside with background working thread > (this is a most common use case!): > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9063877/why-ruby-1-9-gui-hangs-if-i-do-any-intensive-computation-in-separate-ruby-thread Mac OS X Lion + 1.9.3p0 seems work. Windows specific issue?