From: Jeff McNeil <jeff@...>
Date: 2005-09-30T12:20:07+09:00
Subject: Threading Performance?

Greetings.

I apologize if this has been answered somewhere obvious. I did a fair  
bit of Googling prior to piping up. If this has been addressed,  
please feel free to simply point and grunt!

In a nutshell, I have concerns surrounding the Ruby threads  
implementation as it appears to be a home-grown system.  How does  
would performance stack up against FreeBSD 5.x KSD threads?  I've run  
into problems with the Python dummy_thread module before with respect  
to performance, especially when dealing with intensive IO. I have a  
bit of a fear that I'll have the same issue here.

I've been tasked with writing a dynamic HTTPS/HTTP gateway of sorts,  
and as such, it ought to get quite busy in the network IO  
department.  I'd like to take advantage of thread pooling and whatnot.

I'd really love to use Ruby as I'm quickly falling in love with it -  
what a nice language.

Thoughts?

Jeff