From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-03-29T09:41:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13299] Re: ruby slowww socket handling

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From: rise <rise@knavery.net>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 4:20 PM
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
> 

OK, I'm weak on networking. But could the problem be
related to a buffering issue? I know that with console output,
a newline flushes the buffer...

Hal