From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2008-03-26T03:31:44+09:00
Subject: Re: thread.rb

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:11:55 +0900, MenTaLguY <mental@rydia.net> wrote:
> Note, however, that while Monitor is okay under JRuby, in MRI (1.9 at
> least) it uses Timeout in an uncontrolled way and is not entirely reliable
> as a result.

I am wrong.  Timeouts are currently unimplemented in 1.9's Monitor.

> *** I would strongly recommend _against_ using any concurrency primitive
> in 1.9 except for the primitives from thread.rb/thread.so. ***

Evidently more things have changed since 1.8 than I had thought, so
this may or may not still hold.

-mental