From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-07-01T09:57:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Threads and Ruby

Robert Klemme wrote:
> As Ara said, in this case processes are the better choice for several
> reasons: they have separation out of the box and they can make use of
> multiple cores (which Ruby threads can't unless you use JRuby - this
> may change with future 1.9 versions AFAIK).

This is an eventual goal, but I asked ko1 about it and such work has not 
started yet. It will be hard.

Processes are probably better under Ruby, but it's most definitely worth 
trying threads under JRuby first.

- Charlie