On May 22, 2006, at 9:52 PM, Mark Aufflick wrote:

> Yes, they would have to be in seperate processes, which then loses the
> benefits of aolservers fantastic inter-thread communication.
>
> Maybe I should just help out with one of the VM projects and make sure
> that they are thread safe. The interpreter at least - the compiler
> being thread safe is not as important.
>
> On 5/23/06, Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo / gmail.com> wrote:
>> Making a pool of interpreters could have it's own problems. AFAIK,
>> Ruby doesn't support multiple interpreters in the same process.
>

I'm pretty sure JRuby is thread safe. Can aolserver talk to Java? It  
could be a sort of stop-gap solution.