Is this ruby code thread safe?
- by Ben K.
Is this code threadsafe? It seems like it should be, because @myvar will never be assigned from multiple threads (assuming block completes in < 1s).
But do I need to be worried about a situation where the second block is trying to read @myvar as it's being written?
require 'rubygems'
require 'eventmachine'
@myvar = Time.now.to_i
EventMachine.run do
EventMachine.add_periodic_timer(1) do
EventMachine.defer do
@myvar = Time.now.to_i # some calculation and reassign
end
end
EventMachine.add_periodic_timer(0.5) do
puts @myvar
end
end
