From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2005-08-10T04:22:51+09:00
Subject: Re: event driven framework for ruby

James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> writes:

> On Aug 9, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Yohanes Santoso wrote:
>
>> James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> writes:
>>
>>
>>> Does this do all it's socket work in C, to bypass Ruby's Thread
>>> blocking issues?
>>>
>>
>> What blocking issue?
>
> Writing a large chunk of data to a file, for example.  Ruby will
> block until the write completes.


Disk I/O will always block the process executing it. only way to avoid
that is to have another process do the disk I/O (at least on linux,
*bsd; there used to have a unix that does not have this limitation,
but i can't remember the name). Using native thread also does not help
since the whole process is blocked.


YS.