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tony summerfelt (snowzone5 / hotmail.com) wrote:

> i see that a number of modules are declared 'thread safe?'
> 
> what does this mean as it applies to ruby?

The methods inside them can be called concurrently from multiple
threads.

Note that this is not the same as reentrant, where the same method can
be safely executing simultaneously in two threads.

Thread safety can be implemented easily by adding the appropriate
mutexes.  Making a module reentrant requires more care.

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