From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-07-30T01:56:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Concurrent Ruby?

David Masover wrote:
> There's also JRuby, which uses Java's native threads, and has no GIL. There 
> have been some problems with them lately, but they should work -- but again, 
> keep all of the above in mind. You'll be threading as well as Java does, not 
> as well as Erlang does.

I'm not sure what you mean by problems...there have not been problems 
with them lately; they work as you'd expect native threads to work. They 
do require a bit more diligence on your part if you're sharing data 
across the threads, since for performance reasons we don't do any extra 
synchronization of e.g. Array, Hash, String. But native threads work 
fine on JRuby.

- Charlie