From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-10-06T14:17:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Concurent (using threads) slower than sequential -doubt

Carlos Ortega wrote:
> As you see, the thread based program run slower.
> I thought that by using threads it will be faster, but it didn't....Why
> is it slower?

You may want to try with JRuby, which actually uses native threads. On a 
multi-core system, it should improve performance.

- Charlie