From: Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@...>
Date: 2004-07-15T04:17:20+09:00
Subject: Re: system threads (was: Re: No Subject)

Bill,

Isolating the Ruby runtime in a single thread should protect most of
the runtime's internal data structures from synchronization problems,
but I don't think that the core is implemented with an eye towards
cooperating with other threads on things like signals.

If you're only allowing access to the Ruby runtime from a single
thread anyway, you might be better off just forking a child process
that handles the Ruby scripting, and having the two communicate via
some sort of RPC.

Lennon