From: Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@...>
Date: 2012-10-09T09:01:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Why doesn't ruby support native threading?

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On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:38 PM, ajay paswan <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> I think supporting native threading is a great thing in terms of
> parallel computation, then why ruby doesnt support it, in other way, why
> ruby maker is not thinking to give it native support.. very curious to
> know.


JRuby and Rubinius both support thread-level parallelism at the CPU level
without any sort of global interpreter lock (among other implementations,
they are just the two most popular with this feature)

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Tony Arcieri

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On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:38 PM, ajay paswan <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=
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I think supporting native threading is a great thing in terms of<br>
parallel computation, then why ruby doesnt support it, in other way, why<br=
>
ruby maker is not thinking to give it native support.. very curious to<br>
know.</blockquote></div><div><br></div>JRuby and Rubinius both support thre=
ad-level parallelism at the CPU level without any sort of global interprete=
r lock (among other implementations, they are just the two most popular wit=
h this feature)<br clear=3D"all">

<div><br></div>-- <br>Tony Arcieri<br><br>

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