From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2007-05-10T03:27:51+09:00
Subject: Re: basic threading question: can ruby use real threads?

On Thu, 10 May 2007 01:00:04 +0900, Marcin Raczkowski <swistak@mailx.expro.pl> wrote:
> well you can use fastthreads gem (part of mongrel)

fastthread just makes the locking primitives from thread.rb a little faster; it doesn't otherwise affect the operation of Ruby threads.  Additionally, it is applicable only to Ruby 1.8, not YARV/1.9.

-mental