From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-02-02T04:46:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10234] Re: limits on computation?

Mike Wilson <wmwilson1@go.com> writes:

> >     require 'timeout'
> 
> Have you tried this by chance?  It doesn't work for me.  If,
> however, I do this:

Damn. I _did_ try it, but not with big enough numbers. Because the
threading isn't pre-emptive, it waits until the calculation finishes
to announce the timeout. Sigh...

I guess you could use a separate process.


Dave