From: HarryO <harryo@...>
Date: 2001-12-20T15:09:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29072] Re: A Ruby programmer walked into a bar and ordered a Ruby-Thread

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:01:14 +1100, Dave Thomas wrote:

>> In which case, the concept that the threading is done in the
>> interpreter to make it OS independent seems a little "dodgey" for want
>> of a better word.  There's not a lot of point having threads if they
>> don't effectively run in parallel.
> 
> It's a bug, not expected behavior. It just needs to get fixed.

True.  As I say, it doesn't affect me directly.  It's just hard to
convince Windows hackers when something like that doesn't work as
nicely as it does under linux.