From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2009-12-05T13:55:15+09:00
Subject: Re: how about ruby's threads?

On Friday 04 December 2009 09:39:33 pm Ruby Newbee wrote:
> Is ruby's threads safe enough?

What do you mean by "safe"?

> Once I used perl for programming a lot, but perl's threads is not so
> nice,

What was wrong with them?

> and modperl's threads is not safe.

What wasn't safe about them?

I'm really not sure how to answer this question.

On the one hand, I can say that Ruby threads are probably about as "safe" as 
Perl threads, or Python threads, or any threads, in ANY language. It depends 
whether a specific library or application is threadsafe -- for example, you 
mentioned mod_perl. That is really more mod_perl's fault, not so much Perl's 
fault.

On the other hand, no threads are safe, really -- in ANY language. Look into 
other concurrency models, like actors, processes, or events.