From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2010-12-21T18:58:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and science ?

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Charles Oliver Nutter >
> What I'd really like to see are FFI-based wrappers around key science
> and math libraries, rather than more blasted C extensions that can't
> be run concurrently and aren't easily portable across impls. FFI works
> incredibly well for these isolated libraries (as opposed to FFI for
> kernel-level features, which can have many platofrm-specific
> differences).

How do FFI wrappers handle concurrent running? (As in, how do they
differ from C extensions in that respect?)

martin