From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2005-03-18T19:29:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Asyn sockets

Eustaquio Rangel de Oliveira Jr. ha scritto:
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> Hello there!
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> Is there some feature in Ruby like the Java SocketChannels or Python
> asynchat/asyncore?
> I mean, async sockets to make that kind of server program where I don't
> need one thread for every connected client.
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> Thanks!
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I guess you are thinking of IO#select(). Notice that ruby threads are 
userspace ones, and every IO access is actually multiplexed to async 
request like python's asyncore.