From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2008-01-16T21:23:45+09:00
Subject: Re: native threads in ruby

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On Jan 16, 2008 6:12 AM, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@sun.com>
wrote:

> Rick Penn wrote:
> > Is there anyway possible, one can make use of native threads in Ruby?
> > Maybe by interfacing with C or Java?
>
> JRuby supports native threads today, where each Ruby thread maps to one
> native thread. There's also a second option, native thread pooling,
> where the number of native threads used is only ever as high as the
> number of threads running concurrently.
>
> Normal native thread support is the default. Pooling can be enabled with
> a command-line option:
>
> -J-Djruby.thread.pooling=true
>
> - Charlie
>
>
--enable-threading will put 1.8.6 in native thread mode, but it is unadvised
to do so. Ruby 1.9 does uses native threads as well as a construct called
Fibers, which I think are a better implementation of 1.8.6's green threads.

Jason

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