From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T09:38:57+09:00
Subject: Re: run test scripts concurrently

Paul Lutus wrote:
> ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> 
>> threads.each{|t| t.join}
> 
> In my expereince, if you join all the spawned threads to the current thread,
> this guarantees that they will run sequentially. They will certainly run,
> which is a good thing, but they won't run concurrently.
> 
> BTW I am not saying this about threads in general, I am saying it about Ruby
> threads.

This seems concurrent to me, or did you mean something different:

threads = (0..9).map {|i| Thread.new {sleep rand(5); puts i}}
threads.each {|t| t.join}

__END__

Output:

4
8
9
0
7
5
2
1
6
3

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