From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-06-10T06:01:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9.x Concurrency

On Jun 9, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Tony Arcieri wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:31 PM, James Gray  
> <james@grayproductions.net>wrote:
>
>> I've very much a Fiber newbie, so forgive my dumb questions, but…
>>
>> Fibers don't really give true concurrency either, right?
>
>
> Correct.  Fibers are coroutines which can cooperatively switch  
> between each
> other.  However, they can provide an excellent mechanism for modeling
> concurrent I/O where your concurrency primitives spend most of their  
> time
> sleeping waiting for I/O events to happen, which is what's being  
> done here.

Thanks for your excellent explanation.

James Edward Gray II