The Futures of Ruby ThreadingA recent interview with Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto), creator of Ruby, and Sasada Koichi, creator of YARV, tackles the topic of Ruby's handling of threads. Current stable releases of Ruby use user space threads (also called "green threads"), which means that the Ruby interpreter takes care of everything to do with threads. This is in contrast to kernel threads, where the creation, scheduling and sync
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