From: Stefan Kaes <skaes@...>
Date: 2006-01-14T14:02:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby Thread in CGI application?

David Vallner wrote:
> 2. On a multiple CPU system, where algorithms used in processing the 
> request might benefit from parallelism running multiple processors. 
> Though then again, you probably wouldn't do CPU-intensive operations 
> as these algorithms tend to be in Ruby anyway. As more realistic 
> examples, asynchronous database / remote calls come to mind if you 
> want to implement your own timeout policy to those to handle badly 
> written third party libraries graciously to prevent your application 
> from hanging up.
Currently you won't benefit from multiple CPUs as Ruby doesn't use 
native threads.

-- stefan

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