From: Phil Tomson <rubyfan@...>
Date: 2006-05-28T05:38:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Threads...

On 5/27/06, Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@gmail.com> wrote:
> And in a few years nearly all processors for
> general computation will be multicore.

Yes, it's happening pretty quickly.

>
> (This is a side point (and as we know, the side points always generate the
> hottest flames), but I happen to disagree with your choice of DRb. Not
> because of the communications model, but because distributed objects are
> fundamentally problematic.

Can you elaborate?

>  I'd encourage you to look at multiprocess
> event-driven systems. Watch for the upcoming pure-Ruby version of the
> eventmachine library on Rubyforge- it will have built-in constructs to
> explicitly support multiprocess event-driven programming.)

Sounds interesting.

Phil

...still missing the gateway to c.l.r...