Fun with multi-threading

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I've been playing with threads in Ruby (though you can do multi-threading in lots of languages, it's really easy in Ruby), and just found something kind of interesting.

code:

>> ["hello", "world", "super calla fragalistic"].each do |x| *>        Thread.new do *>                puts x >>       end >> end helloworld super calla fragalistic => ["hello", "world", "super calla fragalistic"] >> ["hello", "world", "super calla fragalistic"].each do |x| *>       puts x >> end hello world super calla fragalistic => [1, 2, 3] >> exit C:\>

It turns out that the puts method is so fast, that running it in two separate threads the second wrote to standard output before the first even had a chance to add a newline. puts adds a newline if the thing being printed doesn't already end in one.