From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2005-08-26T11:45:51+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] EventLoop 0.0.20050825.1600

In article <430E404E.6070303@path.berkeley.edu>,
  Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> writes:

> I updated FSDB(*) to 0.5 to take advantage of this, in case it's running
> on 1.8.2 or better. In code with several processes each with several
> threads, I see about a 12%-17% speed boost, because of not having to use
> the polling hack.

Ruby does the polling.  You may call it a hack.
-- 
Tanaka Akira