From: Giacomo Graziosi <g.graziosi@...>
Date: 2008-08-14T19:29:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Multithreading in ruby

On Aug 14, 7:17 am, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nut...@sun.com>
wrote:
> Ruby 1.9 has native threads, but they do not run in parallel and Ruby is
> still in charge of scheduling them (or allowing the OS to schedule them).
>

What are they planning for the future? Some time ago a joined research
project between Tokyo University and Sun was annunced (
http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/02/ruby-mvm-research ), did they
release anything yet? Does anybody know if the guys developing the
main Ruby implementations (MRI and Yarv) are planning something about
this?
Looks like both JRuby and Rubinius are sharing a common API for MVM
and JRuby has support for concurrent threading too: I feel the lack
for a common specification here, are we supposed to write Ruby code
that won't work on every Ruby implementation?