From: Charles Mills <cmills@...>
Date: 2005-02-08T09:30:09+09:00
Subject: Re: threading question, are ops on builtins atomic?


Florian Gross wrote:
> Sam Roberts wrote:
>
> > Can I do Array#push from multiple threads at the same time, and
know
> > that all the objs pushed from the threads are on the Array, in some
> > indeterminate order? What about Array#delete from multiple threads,
> > and know it was deleted (though only by one of the threads)?
>
> AFAIK yes, because there are usually no Ruby thread context switches
in
> C functions. But note that += and friends are not atomic.

Is / will this be the case when using pthreads?
in Ruby 2.0?

-Charlie