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My personal experience with Ruby is extremely shallow, but a casual glance at the search results wrt the GIL in Ruby seems to say it actually does have one. I c

by y4mi 7y ago

My personal experience with Ruby is extremely shallow, but a casual glance at the search results wrt the GIL in Ruby seems to say it actually does have one. I could be wrong, as I'm not an experienced Ruby developer, however. I.e. https://thoughtbot.com/blog/untangling-ruby-threads https://thoughtbot.com/blog/untangling-ruby-threads

pjmlp 7y ago
Ruby has multiple implementations, JRuby uses Java Threads without any sort of GIL. Plenty of talks done on this subject by Charles Nutter.
yorwba 7y ago
From your link: "Note that this is not the case for JRuby or Rubinius which do not have a GIL and offer true multi-threading."