From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-03-04T02:35:28+09:00
Subject: Re: question: threads behaviour

On 02.03.2011 22:30, Jörg W Mittag wrote:
> Eric Wong wrote:
>> Raphael Bauduin<rblists@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> As ruby threads are so called green threads, what's the behaviour when
>>> one thread is blocked on IO?
>> They're only green threads on Ruby 1.8, 1.9 uses native threads.
>
> That's not true. The vast majority of Ruby 1.8 implementations use
> native threads, and I think there is at least one Ruby 1.9
> implementation which uses green threads.

Really?  Which are those?

Cheers

	robert

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