From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-07-07T01:29:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03879] Re: Multithreaded/Embedded Ruby?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:03872] Re: Multithreaded/Embedded Ruby?"
    on 00/07/06, Aleksi Niemel� <aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com> writes:

|But however it's thread-safe as a executor of Ruby code. There can be
|multiple threads of Ruby code running simultaneously on one single
|interpreter.

I doubt it.  Ruby's conservative GC may be fooled by objects
referenced from multiple stack spaces.  The only solution might be per
thread interpreter object.  Does anybody have information about
conservative GC and native thread altogether?  Guile does not support
native thread yet, right?

							matz.