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by drzaiusx11 59 days ago
Curious why "no threads" when the ruby scheduler and underlying pthread implementation should work fine in C land. I guess to be "zero dependency"? Seems an odd trade-off to me, unless optional "extensions" are planned / omitted for later implementation etc.
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I don’t see anywhere that it’s something they specifically decided not to support. Probably they just haven’t gotten around to it yet? Multithreading is notoriously difficult to get right.
It says it isn't supported right in the readme. Just isn't clear on the "why" yet. Not getting to it yet is my hope. I maintain 14+ highly threaded ruby services atm, for context.