From: gwtmp01@...
Date: 2007-01-19T05:35:37+09:00
Subject: Re: [BLOG] Concurrency models


On Jan 18, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Wilson Bilkovich wrote:
> On 1/18/07, gwtmp01@mac.com <gwtmp01@mac.com> wrote:
>> Does this mean that there is already an implicit understanding  
>> that some
>> methods in the core Ruby classes are inherently thread safe? If so  
>> are
>> *all* core methods thread safe?  Is that by design or accident? I  
>> doubt
>> that the entire standard library is thread safe but perhaps large
>> parts are?
>
> They definitely are not. Given that fine-grained locks in library code
> do not compose, it's going to take some work to make the whole stdlib
> thread-safe once native threads are available.

What does 'They' refer to in your comment?  The core classes or the  
standard
library?  Are there non-thread safe methods in the core classes?  I was
trying to distinguish between the two groups of classes in my comment.

Gary Wright