From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-02-21T15:25:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11219] Re: Ruby threading

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Lam <wy2lam@student.math.uwaterloo.ca>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 10:10 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:11217] Ruby threading


> Since Ruby supports threading even in operating systems without native
threading
> support, here comes my question.
>
> Does Ruby threads take advantage of parallel processing hardware, and if
not, is
> it worthwhile to support it, and if yes, then how difficult is it?
>

No, they don't.

My impressions:
Theoretically worthwhile...
But very difficult to implement, especially cross-platform.

Hal Fulton