Posts tagged ‘concurrency’

Ruby 3.0 is scheduled for release Christman 2020. The information below is subject to change.

Writing, debugging and maintaining safe multi-threaded code is notoriously difficult. Luckily, many useful gems and standard approaches have been created so that you don’t have to do all the heavy lifting yourself.

You can see all these code examples on github

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When ruby was conceived, multi-core CPUs weren’t at the forefront of a language designer’s mind. Subsequently, the ruby virtual machine was developed as a single process, single threaded executable.

I’m a big fan of both ruby and elixir. For quite some time, one perceived weakness of ruby has been its inability to make best use of multiple cores in modern CPUs.