From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2000-05-31T11:30:23+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:03050] Re: Thread.new vs. Thread.start Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:03046] Thread.new vs. Thread.start" on 00/05/30, Dave Thomas writes: |From a programer's perspective, what is the difference between | | Thread.new {} | |and | | Thread.start {} They are almost identical. Both create and start new thread. The only difference is `new' calls `initialize', OTOH `start' does not. matz.