From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2006-07-11T15:42:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Platform Independence Programming

On 7/11/06, Minkoo Seo <minkoo.seo@gmail.com> wrote:
> What about priority of a Thread? Number of priorities vary from OS to OS,
> and it is said that priorities map to different prority levels depending on
> OS even
> if threads are green. How is Ruby's implementaion in this regard?

Ruby's threads have nothing really to do with OS threads -- they are
implemented entirely within the interpreter. Note that if you are on
multi-processor box, your app regardless of how many Ruby threads you
are using you will be only using one of them -- one process/one
thread. Priorities are also handled within the interpreter. You get
lucky here, not much to worry about.

pth