From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2001-11-27T01:25:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26526] Re: Table: Ruby versus Smalltalk, Objective-C, C++, Java;

On Monday 26 November 2001 06:46 am, Thomas Gagne wrote:
> David, your table seems to mix language features with library features.
>
> Native Threads - isn't this an implementation issue?  Doesn't Smalltalk MT
> use native threads?  I personally believe this is a ding against VW.

MT uses native threads, but only works on Win32 systems, which have their own 
threading model.

Cross-platform systems (like Ruby) do better when they provide their own 
threading (since the target system may not provide a threading model at all, 
or it may be substantially different than what is needed).

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