Moonbase

So I’ve been getting mail to the effect that Ruby 1.8’s concurrency primitives are still all screwed up even as recently as 1.8.6p111, and that fastthread is consequently required to get things to work reliably.

I find that really frustrating, as I was hoping that once fastthread was merged with 1.8 as the new thread.rb, I could get out of the fastthread business altogether and rely on the 1.8 maintainers to deal with it, but unfortunately things don’t seem to have worked out that way.

I think what I may do this point is re-enable fastthread for all 1.8 versions, and hope that Ruby 1.8, as a Ruby implementation, goes away sooner rather than later.