From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2011-10-18T01:30:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and threading

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Carter Cheng <cartercheng@gmail.com> wrote:
> I gather then the 1.9.2. implementation at present does not "exploit" OS
> level threads (where as JRuby borrows them from the underlying JVM in some
> manner)?

You gather incorrectly. Ruby 1.9.2 does use underlying OS threads. For
a variety of reasons, however, there is a Global Interpreter Lock as
Josh Cheek pointed out to you (and provided this link:
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/ruby-concurrency-and-you/).

-a
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