From: slonik.az@...
Date: 2005-12-26T23:05:25+09:00
Subject: Thread synchronization: Mutex or Monitor??

Hi Rubyists!!
Ruby contains two seemingly equivalents tools for thread synchronization:
Mutex (defined in thread.rb) and Monitor (defined in monitor.rb). They
both implement classic mutex and conditional variable functionality
and have the same API. This begs two questions:

1: What is the difference between Monitor and Mutex?

2: Which one of the two is the preferred solution? PickAxe 1-st
edition covered Mutex, PickAxe 2-nd edition covers Monitor in main
text and Mutex in passing in library reference.

Any opinions are highly appreciated.

Thanks,
--Leo--