From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2008-07-30T13:36:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Concurrent Ruby?

On Tuesday 29 July 2008 11:56:43 Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> 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;

Maybe it wasn't actually "lately".

And there's still the rest of it:

> They  
> do require a bit more diligence on your part if you're sharing data 
> across the threads,

That's the whole problem that I'm attacking right now -- while a pure actor 
model wouldn't share any data, I'm not even sure I can safely clone 
everything properly, if I was going that route. And I'd rather not, for 
obvious performance reasons.