From: Vincent Isambart <vincent.isambart@...>
Date: 2005-02-16T23:44:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread-safe Ruby Status?

Hi,

> |I saw in the ChangeLog in the CVS trunk some recent modifications
> |regarding the threads and discovered the _THREAD_SAFE flag in eval.c.
> |So I was wondering what is the current status of the thread-safeness
> |of the Ruby interpreter in the CVS trunk. And has some work on Ruby
> |using native threads instead of its owns begun?
> 
> _THREAD_SAFE means to avoid crashing when pthread enabled library is
> linked, not replacing Ruby thread with pthread.
And regarding the thread-safeness of the interpreter itself - by that
I mean being able to run more than one Ruby interpreter in one
process, what is the current status? I remember at least a big part of
the variables that were global are not anymore, but I do not know what
is the current state of all this...

Thanks for the fast replies :)

oyasumi nasai (it's quite late in Japan ;))
Kind regards,
Vincent "scritch" Isambart