From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-05-01T21:51:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiplexed I/O

On May 1, 2006, at 1:44 AM, Minkoo Seo wrote:

> I can't understand this. If ruby uses non native multithreading, then
> all threads will run in the same process. And that implies that one
> blocking I/O operation stop the all threads in the ruby interpreter
> process, doesn't it?

I'm pretty sure Ruby selects over sockets under the hood, to keep the  
interpreter from blocking.  I don't believe that's a perfect solution  
those as something like a large write could still block the process.

James Edward Gray II