[#3109] Is divmod dangerous? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

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[#3149] Retrieving the hostname and port in net/http — Roland Jesse <jesse@...>

Hi,

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[#3222] Ruby coding standard? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

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[#3277] Re: BUG or something? — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

> |I am new to Ruby and this brings up a question I have had

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[#3281] Re: BUG or something? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2000/06/12

Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com> writes:

[#3296] RE: about documentation — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

> I want to contribute to the ruby project in my spare time.

15 messages 2000/06/12

[#3407] Waffling between Python and Ruby — "Warren Postma" <embed@...>

I was looking at the Ruby editor/IDE for windows and was disappointed with

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[#3410] Exercice: Translate into Ruby :-) — Jilani Khaldi <jilanik@...>

Hi All,

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[#3415] Re: Waffling between Python and Ruby — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

>Static typing..., hmm,...

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[#3453] Re: Static Typing( Was: Waffling between Python and Ruby) — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

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[#3516] Deep copy? — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>

Given that I cannot overload =, how should I go about ensuring a deep

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[#3694] Why it's quiet — hal9000@...

We are all busy learning the new language

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[#3703] Re: Why it's quiet — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...> 2000/06/30

Hi,

[#3705] Re: Why it's quiet — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2000/06/30

Hi,

[ruby-talk:03084] Re: Thread priorities

From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-06-02 04:15:21 UTC
List: ruby-talk #3084
matz@netlab.co.jp (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "[ruby-talk:03059] Thread priorities"
>     on 00/05/31, Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:
> 
> |Thread priorities don't seem to have any effect:
> |
> |        c1 = 0
> |        c2 = 0
> |        a = Thread.new do
> |              loop { c1 += 1 }
> |            end
> |        b = Thread.new do
> |              loop { c2 += 1 }
> |            end
> |        b.priority = 99999
> |        sleep 1
> |        Thread.critical = 1
> |        p c1  # => 347111
> |        p c2  # => 343477
> |
> |
> |Am I missing something?
> 
> No, there was a bug.  But when the bug is fixed this program hangs,
> since thread b goes to inifinite loop with higher priority.  There's
> no chance for other threads to run.

But if I change it to:

        Thread.current.priority = 2
        b.priority = 1
        sleep 1

would it run? And if so, would the c1 be zero at the end?

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