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Hi. OP here. Thanks for the comments about atomicity vs. thread-safety. Absolutely on point. The article started out demonstrating what happened with concurrent Array mutation, but…

Correct. Later on I say: There are some very specific caveats that MRI makes for concurrent IO. If you have one thread that's waiting on IO (ie. waiting for a response from the DB …

AFAIK there is no spec. MRI is the reference implementation, but many things are experimental or intentionally unspecified. Given that MRI ships with a GIL, the only core classes t…

Before Pat announced he was writing an ebook, I was following the articles he wrote on his blog. He has a real knack for making difficult concepts easy to understand using diagrams…

It's linked near the bottom of that page. https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A301WJ6X...

I would. There really wasn't much 'bother' to speak of once I understood how it worked. And even though it wasn't as fruitful as other efforts, many small returns add up quickly.