Mike Wilson <wmwilson1 / go.com> writes:

> >     require 'timeout'
> 
> Have you tried this by chance?  It doesn't work for me.  If,
> however, I do this:

Damn. I _did_ try it, but not with big enough numbers. Because the
threading isn't pre-emptive, it waits until the calculation finishes
to announce the timeout. Sigh...

I guess you could use a separate process.


Dave