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Ruby core classes aren't thread-safe

by jstorimer —

Interacting with core classes (like Array and Hash) appears to be thread-safe with MRI because of the global lock. There are no such guarantees on the truly multi-threaded implementations like JRuby and Rubinius. I wrote about the effect of the global lock, and how to protect your data with mutexes.

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