From: Marcin Raczkowski <swistak@...>
Date: 2007-05-10T01:00:04+09:00
Subject: Re: basic threading question: can ruby use real threads?

On Tuesday 08 May 2007 21:34, Kyle Schmitt wrote:
> OK, so I'm reading that article, and I'm getting three things form it:
> YARV uses native threads.
> YARV doesn't run them simultaneously.
> YARV will eventually run them simultaneously.
>
> Good enough for me, I'll just hope that writing threaded code doesn't
> change to much with ruby2.0/YARV.
>
> --Kyle

well you can use fastthreads gem (part of mongrel)
also you can fork your script ^^ threads usually execute on same processor 
AFIK, that's why if you want to use 2 processors you have to fork your 
scripts, and if you need comunication between them consider using drb.

very good gem is slave - it makes creating new processes super easy - it 
provides easy way to comunicate, so you can create 4-6 new processes each 
will get data to compute from mother process and the'll use both processors

sorry for lots of randomness and strange grammar - to much coffeine
to sumarize - read rdoc for gems:
- fasthread(s)
- slave(s)
(i never remember if they are plurar or singular)

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Marcin Raczkowski
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