From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2008-12-26T18:43:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Are all Ruby built-in objects thread safe?

 I would very much welcome a set of guaranteed-thread-safe wrapper
> collections folks could use if they're concerned about concurrency, since it
> would be unreasonable to penalize all code with locking. For now, learn and
> love Mutex, or don't share collections across threads.

That sounds like a fun job. The issue goes well with a question which
burns on the top of my tongue:
How to test thread issues? I do not have any experience in this field
but consider it somehow critical before "promising" functional thread
safe wrappers.

Cheers
R.


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