From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2008-07-01T03:06:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Threads and Ruby

El Lunes, 30 de Junio de 2008, Joel VanderWerf escribió:
> Zhukov Pavel wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Joel VanderWerf
> >
> >> I haven't used 1.9 much, but the impression I get is:
> >>
> >> - use 1.9 if you need _native_ threads (e.g. to take advantage of
> >> multiple processors, or blocking system calls)
> >
> > really advantage on multiply processors? Ruby 1.9 does't use GIL???
>
> You're quite right.

A good article about it:
  http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/05/ruby-threading-futures

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Iñaki Baz Castillo