From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-09-26T09:47:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Scales just fine !

Ari Brown wrote:
> Soo........ Ruby DOES use multiple cores? I read somewhere that it
> didn't (probably this thread).
> 
> And if it doesn't use multiple cores, is there any work on it being able
> to use them?
> 
> Ari
> ---------------------------------------------------------------|
> ~Ari
> "I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it" --1337est man
> alive
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
Well, if you have two Ruby *processes* on your dual-core box, all of the
concurrency techniques that work via inter-process communication will
work. "Green" threads in Ruby 1.8.x won't, but native OS threads in Ruby
1.9 will work.