From: Walle Wallen <walle.sthlm@...>
Date: 2010-05-26T19:07:24+09:00
Subject: how to achieve parallelism, using threads?

Hey,
I'm having a hard time figuring out how threads works, and how to use
them. I'm currently working on a project were I need to achieve
parallelism in the code, but I always ends up with a multiply threads,
working in a queue (after each other, as a single thread program).

If we take a look at the code example bellow. What I'm trying to achieve
is the following.
The main loop starts a new thread, executes it and then CONTINUES,
without waiting for
the thread to finish. They should work simultaneously.

The problem is, they don't. So, I tried executing the thread without
using join. But it crashed
the program since the thread didn't have time to finish.

Can someone please help me?

//Walle

Example code
def func()
  #Tcp connection and more
end

def main_loop()
  #do some work
   aThread = Thread.new {func()}
   aThread.join
end

main_loop()
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