From: Todd Gillespie <toddg@...>
Date: 2001-09-24T12:27:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21617] Re: opening a named pipe?

On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Avdi B. Grimm wrote:
> 3. Is anyone working on native threads for Ruby yet?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Sorry.  I spent most of the weekend that didn't involve moving boxes on
working on my aolserver/Ruby integration.  The hairier bits of aolserver's
threading is really hard to wrap my mind around.

>  Having threads
> that may block unpredictably is incredibly annoying for someone used to
> coding fully-multithreaded apps in C++. Couldn't we just wrap the
> excellent ACE middleware? No need to reinvent the wheel...

Ghod, anything, please.


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