From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-01-17T06:27:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Fwd: [suby-ruby] Your all time desired fundemental Ruby mod

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 06:20:02 +0900, John Carter <john.carter@tait.co.nz> wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Glenn Parker wrote:
> > Real OS-based threading.
> 
> I have used Ruby threading quite a bit and I must say I have _no_ desire
> for this feature.
> 
> In fact I hate the very notion.
[...]
> The trouble is C threading just has so many ways it which it can go wrong
> it really frightens me.
> 
> Ruby would simply loose it's rock solid stability if they did OS level
> multi-threading.

I more-or-less agree with John here -- I found Java's threading model
to be the first threading model that I actually understood, and I
think that Ruby's threading model is better even than that. However, I
would say that this:

  Make Ruby Place Nice with OS Threading.

is what we really need.

Right now, Ruby can't be safely used with multithreaded applications
or libraries; that should change if at all possible. This probably
means that we need OS-level threading, but I'd love to keep Ruby's
green threads as it's all that I've ever needed.

-austin
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