From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-05-28T03:03:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Threads...

gwtmp01@mac.com wrote:
...
> I do agree with you that it takes a lot of discipline to use threads 
> effectively. Many times it seems like a standard multi-process model
> would work just as well as trying to play with fire in a shared
> address space.  Unix used to be known for its 'cheap' processes and
> now everyone seems to think that process creation is monumentally 
> expensive.

Agree in general, but in the case of ruby, note that forking a ruby
process is more costly because of GC. In a short-lived child, GC can be
disabled to improve performance. [ruby-talk:186561]

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