From: Zhukov Pavel <gelios@...>
Date: 2008-06-30T18:28:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Threads and Ruby

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter
<charles.nutter@sun.com> wrote:
> ara.t.howard wrote:
>>
>> for any situation you want processes.  use fork or systemu if you want it
>> portable.  threads are not the way to get a sandbox.
>
> I hope you mean "for this situation". Processes are definitely not the
> solution to all problems.
>
> - Charlie
>
>
Ruby doesn't have _real_ threads AFAIK, so DRb+fork it's the only way
to get true parallel work.