From: Chris Gehlker Date: 2002-01-16T23:29:30+09:00 Subject: Re: A question on Ruby Threads On 1/16/02 1:54 AM, "Markus Jais" wrote: > hello > > this is more of a general question on Ruby Threads. > I have never used threads in any language until now, so > I am a complete newbie to this topic. > (have read something about threads in a bad java book, > but this didn't help me with the following questions) I'm a Ruby newbie but I'll take a shot. > I read somewhere that Ruby threads are no native threads. That's right. > what exactly is a native thread?? (something using pthreads on linux??) Yes, pthreads on Unix and the WIN32 threads on Windows. > what is the advantage / disadvantage of the ruby approach to threads?? > > are native threads faster?? The Ruby method is portable. I don't think it's as fast and it can't use more than one processor at a time. > Does anybody know, if the Python and Perl Thread implementations are similar > to the ruby Thread implementation?? I'm not sure. Matz has hinted that Ruby 2.x will use native threads. > I tried to find some answers on the web but couldn't find anything > useful. Sherlock rocks. -- Adults are obsolete children. -Dr. Seuss, humorist, illustrator, and author (1904-1991)