From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-04-29T20:00:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiplexed I/O

2006/4/29, Vlad GALU <vladgalu@gmail.com>:
> On 4/29/06, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > non native there is a certain overhead associated with them. Using
> > select together with a thread pool might be an option, too. This
> > approach usually scales better than individual threads per IO.
>
>    Basically polling the socket within each thread, right ? I did this
> before, in C, and indeed, it worked quite OK.

I though of a different architecture: have one thread select'ing and
hand off IO tasks to a set of threads via a queue.

>    I could've as well written in what I already know best - C++ :) My
> goal is to use Ruby :)

Ah, ok.  Then of course, go ahead - and have fun! :-)

>    Thanks for the hints, Robert. Should be enough to get me going.

My pleasure.

Kind regards

robert


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