From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2007-03-07T00:49:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread reading from a pipe blocks other threads, why?

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 00:40:06 +0900, "Anders Lindgren" <andlind@gmail.com> wrote:

> I cross my fingers that the next major version of Ruby uses a non-toy
> concurrent solution.

I'm working on an implementation of actors for Ruby (as part of an omnibus concurrency library).  While it doesn't eliminate shared state from the language, in principle it makes it possible to avoid in many cases.

-mental