Has anyone tried to get the OpenMp project to work with Ruby?
This seems like a nice way to provide portable true parallelism in Ruby.
http://openmp.org/wp/
A quick search around shows that yes, some people have tried, but not
with any good results. There are multiple discussions of true
parallelism in Ruby, I’d suggest you start here:
http://www.igvita.com/2008/11/13/concurrency-is-a-myth-in-ruby/