From: Lyle Johnson <johnson2@...>
Date: 2001-04-17T13:10:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13725] Re: Ruby threading implementation docs?

> > Has anything been written down (in English) about Ruby's threads
> > implementation?
>
> Chapter 11 of "Programming Ruby" is called "Threads and Processes".
>
> Here's a link: http://www.rubycentral.com/book/tut_threads.html

Thanks; I've got my (well-read) copy of Programming Ruby and agree that it
provides an excellent discussion of how to use Ruby threads from a Ruby
program. What I am looking for is a more technical description about the
actual implementation (i.e. the C source code) that lives in "eval.c".

I'm trying to decide how best to support Ruby's thread model in FXRuby. It
looks like Ruby/GTK waits for GUI idle time and then the main thread puts
itself to sleep for a little while (to let the other threads do their
thing). I've stuck this in FXRuby, and it sort-of works but I was hoping to
come up with something a little better (not sure what yet). So I'm going
through the source code and trying to follow what's going on with the
various rb_thread_* functions.