From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-07-02T06:35:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] threadify-0.0.1


On Jul 1, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

> Appears to work just dandy under JRuby:
>
> ➔ time jruby --server -rthreadify -e "nums = *(1..35); def fib(n);  
> if n < 2; return n; else; return fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2); end; end;  
> nums.each {|i| p fib(i)}"

wow that's cool - now that's a a seriously easy way to parallelize ;-)

> I also found some weird bug where Thread#kill/exit from within the  
> thread interacts weirdly with join happening outside, and never  
> terminates. Fixing that now.


glad to have helped ;-)

i just pushed out 0.0.2 and it just lets the thread die rather that  
self-destructing.  see how that works...

cheers.

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