> I was just wondering.  I remember hearing of Ruby being moved 
to POSIX
> Threads. Does anyone have any information on this?
> 

Gene,

I don't believe that's really correct.

First of all, Ruby is cross-platform, and runs on some platforms
for which there's no pthreads implementation. My guess is that
Ruby's "native" threads will always be proprietary.

However, certainly it is possible to create a pthreads library 
for Ruby (on the suitable platforms).

There has been discussion of this, but I don't know whether
that project has been completed (or even started). If it is 
anywhere near completion, I would *think* it would be in the
Ruby Application Archive. I haven't looked, though.

Does someone else out there know more?

Hal