From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-03-23T13:18:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13112] Re: Thread Safe

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:13079] Thread Safe"
    on 01/03/23, Rogers Gene A Civ 96 CG/SCTOB <gene.rogers@eglin.af.mil> writes:

|Here's a question (stupid, maybe):

Not stupid at all.

|Does anyone know if ruby is thread safe?

In short, no.  Sorry.  I'd like to support it, but it's technically
pretty hard.

Ruby/Java runs Ruby interpreter on single thread, and every other
thread communicates with the thread via queue.  This in one
possibility for near future.

							matz.