From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-01-21T23:42:11+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 25373-25479

On Jan 21, 2005, at 5:01 AM, Tim Sutherland wrote:

> The only place I'm aware of where non-blocking IO is useful in Ruby is 
> for
> sockets when calling accept().

I don't think that's the "only" place.  :)  There have been examples 
posted to this list fairly recently that demonstrate when Ruby's 
multicasting techniques are not enough.  Non-Blocking IO remains a very 
real option for high volume, high performance servers.

James Edward Gray II