From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2008-07-10T02:50:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread-safe priority queue?



On Jul 9, 9:08 am, "Sean O'Halpin" <sean.ohal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of a solid, thread-safe priority queue implementation in Ruby?
>
> The only one I can find is Joel Vanderwerf's
> (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/9d...)
> which doesn't work with more recent versions of ruby (because Queue
> implementation changed from Ruby to C).

Hmm... I'm not sure if Facets implementation is thread safe. It's may
be worth a look. If I recall correctly, Olivier Renaud was the last to
work on it, so he may know more. If it isn't thread safe, btw, it
would make a nice patch.

T.