Re: Threads and Ruby

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter
<charles.nutter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
ara.t.howard wrote:

for any situation you want processes. use fork or systemu if you want it
portable. threads are not the way to get a sandbox.

I hope you mean "for this situation". Processes are definitely not the
solution to all problems.

- Charlie


Ruby doesn't have _real_ threads AFAIK, so DRb+fork it's the only way
to get true parallel work.

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