From: Marcin Raczkowski <swistak@...>
Date: 2007-05-10T03:57:44+09:00
Subject: Re: basic threading question: can ruby use real threads?

On Wednesday 09 May 2007 18:27, MenTaLguY wrote:
> 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

I didn't say it makes use of POSIX threads - i just recomended it becouse they 
are well ... faster.

only thing right now that'll let you use botht procesors is fork

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Marcin Raczkowski
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