From: rise <rise@...>
Date: 2001-03-29T09:20:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13298] Re: ruby slowww socket handling

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Joseph McDonald wrote:

> So ~20,000 messages per second.
> half the speed of perl, but much better than 62 per second :-)
>
> So problem in IO::puts?

It looks like two problems to me: one is that the IO#puts behavior of
adding a newline is either a) not working or b) really slow.

The other is that when the perl version is tested against an echo server
without a newline it also blocks/slows down massively.

Jonathan Conway