From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2008-02-21T06:36:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9, threads and FreeBSD 5

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:59:57 +0900, Eric Jacoboni <jaco@neottia.net> wrote:
> Thanks to Guy for the sleep trick and for your PortableSemaphore
> implementation: i'm gonna investigate it further.

Please note that you shouldn't ever use the sleep trick in
production code -- it merely hides problems during testing
when they can still occur under production load.

(I emphasize this, because the sleep trick seems to be fairly
popular as an "easy fix"; even I'm guilty of using it a lot
in the past...)

-mental