From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-01-31T22:58:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is webrick sooo slow?

Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@lypanov.net> writes:

> On Jan 24, 2005, at 7:39 PM, Joao Pedrosa wrote:
>> When I think about serving large binary files with WEBrick, I soon
>> realize that we really need webservers.
>
> with large files the difference is theoretically
> *much* lower. its the small files that suffer from
> latency problems for a webserver written in pure ruby.
>
> i imagine that ruby2c + some clever profiling will
> get some damn impressive results.
>
> Alex

Note that for raw IO, a well-tuned server can use OS-depended calls
like sendfile(2), which are not directly accessible through Ruby.

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