From: jjenning@... (jared l. jennings)
Date: 2001-07-25T14:14:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18507] Re: Threading  was: Re: Ruby as opposed to Python?

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:16:07AM +0900, Joseph McDonald wrote:
> 
> AG> Let me just say that this is the single biggest problem that I see
> AG> with Ruby.  To my mind, native threading support is a must for a
> AG> language to be widely accepted.  Ruby's internal threading support has
> AG> already demonstrated how elgantly Ruby can support common threading
> AG> patterns - I'd love to see the ability to transparently drop in either
> AG> Ruby-thread or native thread backends into a Ruby program, without
> AG> changing anything but the threading class used.
> 
> I'd also vote to put this near the top of the priority list.
> 

Has anyone tried writing a libpthread extension?