# Re: Book wanted: Concurrent Ruby Programming (was Re: Book w

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 7, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-book-wanted-concurrent-ruby-programming-was-re-book-w/75125 "2006-11-07T17:06:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-book-wanted-concurrent-ruby-programming-was-re-book-w/75125/1 "2006-11-07T17:06:26Z")

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Quoting “M. Edward (Ed) Borasky” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

> > > What I’d rather see a book on is dealing with _concurrency_ in Ruby.  
> > > Dual-core and quad-core chips aren’t going away. 🙂 Francis? You’re our  
> > > resident expert, I think …

I’m fascinated by it as well and would certainly buy a book that goes  
into more  
detail. Data sets are growing so large. We are quickly going from  
hundreds of  
billions to tens of trillions of bytes locally… Processing massive  
amounts of  
data quickly will become more and more important soon. IPv4 to IPv6 for  
example… the IP space is simply massive.

Effective concurrency reminds me of the encrypted messages that British  
scientists were able to decrypt during WW2 that came from the German  
Enigma  
machines. Being able to crack the messages was important, but just as  
important  
was the ability to do so quickly so the information would be timely and  
thus  
useful.