On 8 Oct 2008, at 19:52, Robert Walker wrote:

>
>> Of course to see the most benefit you'll need a ruby implementation
>> with native threads, like jruby.
> Or Ruby 1.9 YARV if I'm not mistaken?
>
IIRC ruby 1.9 is a bit special - threads are mapped to native threads,  
but there's some giant mutex (IIRC to help compatibility with C- 
extensions that could previously assume that everything was single  
threaded from a native thread point of view) that limits the  
effectiveness of this.

Fred
> Frederick Cheung wrote:
>> On 8 Oct 2008, at 18:22, Michael Sofaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>
> ...snip...
>>
>> Fred
>
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