From: Emiliano <emile@...>
Date: 2001-10-16T14:28:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22595] Re: Embedding Ruby

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> |- I've been told (totally unverified) that ruby isn't thread-safe, and
> |  that making it thread-safe would be hard. How much truth is there to
> |  this?
> 
> It's not thread-safe.  Some tried the way that everything related in
> Ruby in one native thread, then other threads send request via queue.

OK, so that'd be kind of a 'ruby server' thread. How about separate
scripts running in separate threads?

> |- Is a separate runtime-only engine (one that can only run precompiled
> |  scripts) available?
> 
> No.  It's ToDo for the next major version.

Ah, great. Any insights on when this is planned?

Emile