From: Charles Oliver Nutter <Charles.O.Nutter@...>
Date: 2006-10-17T14:53:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Threads

Abhisek Datta wrote:
> But sometimes it is unacceptable to have all the threads block when a
> single thread is blocking on a system/service call to the operating
> system.
> 
> Is there any plan for implementing a Ruby interface to native threads
> on various Operating Systems?

I would be remiss if I didn't mention that JRuby supports native threads 
today via Java's own threading support. Of course, there's certain Ruby 
things we don't support...like system calls and C extensions.

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