From: "Zed A. Shaw" <zedshaw@...>
Date: 2005-09-12T02:36:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [RFC] The Early Demise of Myriad (Thanks To Ruby Threads)

Thanks, that really helps me decide if I should continue.  FD_SETSIZE in a Ruby implementation that will be done "when it's done" is exactly the information I needed to know that Myriad is worth continuing.

Instead of continuing to prop-up the select method, please take a look at using libevent instead.  Just based on my experiences with a *10 fold* increase in performance over Ruby Threads should be enough motivation.  I tried my best but that just didn't work.

Zed A. Shaw

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:12:18 +0900
Tanaka Akira <akr@m17n.org> wrote:

> In article <20050911122118.7742196a.zedshaw@zedshaw.com>,
>   "Zed A. Shaw" <zedshaw@zedshaw.com> writes:
> 
> > a pure Ruby implementation would only handle as many connections as select supports (which is sometimes 256)?
> 
> Ruby 1.9 allocates fd_set dynamically.  So the FD_SETSIZE restriction
> is relaxed.
> -- 
> Tanaka Akira
>