From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-01-14T19:07:32+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby Thread in CGI application?

2006/1/14, Stefan Kaes <skaes@gmx.net>:
> David Vallner wrote:
> > Slipped my mind. I was talking in general anyway. And doesn't the
> > pthread binding let you use native threads? (Didn't really do anything
> > with it himself)
> >
> I don't know enough about Ruby's pthread support to have an informed
> opinion on this question :-(

AFAIK there is no support for any native threading in standard Ruby
1.x.  The interpreter just isn't designed for this. For web apps
Ruby's threading might be sufficient in the general case because there
is a lot IO and multiplexing on IO should work find.

Btw, native thread support for me is one of the key improvements of Ruby 2.

Kind regards

robert