From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-01-01T01:15:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Why not call Thread.join?

On 31.12.2007 17:02, thefed wrote:
> On Dec 31, 2007, at 12:49 AM, Skye Shaw!@#$ wrote:
> 
>> Generally speaking, the only thing it would slow down (stop really) is
>> the execution path of the main thread.
>>
>> Now if for some reason your main thread has to do other work, a join
>> would delay that, of course.
> 
> OK, I understand it better. But why does each {|t| t.join} join them  
> all at the same time (ish), and not wait for the first one to finish  
> executing before joining the others?

They are not joined at the same time but one after the other.

Cheers

	robert