From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2003-06-13T18:59:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advantages over Perl

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 06:31:04PM +0900, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> "Shashank Date" <sdate@everestkc.net> wrote in message news:<bc9uao$g0chk$1@ID-194283.news.dfncis.de>...
> > "Mauricio Fern�ndez" <batsman.geo@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > > I guess you meant that Ruby has *no* native threads but rather green
> > > threads, etc...
> > 
> > I must be using wrong terminology here ... I meant to say OS independant.
> > I thought "native" meant language supported ... but looks like it means OS
> > supported. Thanks for correcting me. What is the correct term for language
> > supported threading ? "Simulated threading" ? 

I call them Lightweight Threads?

> I think of it more as "Lack of threading." :)


Regards,

  Michael