From: Alexander Bokovoy <a.bokovoy@...>
Date: 2001-10-16T19:54:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22606] Re: Embedding Ruby

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 07:46:07PM +0900, Emiliano wrote:
> Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> 
> > So, I could run a standalone process with embedded Ruby and have native 
> > threads to communicate with it for running scripts and it will be able to put 
> > executed scripts into different Ruby threads making whole execution
> > process 'thread-safe' from point of view of multi-threaded external
> > application (for example, Apache2)?
> 
> The downside of this approach is that this (single-threaded) server
> now becomes the bottleneck for your threaded server, and that you
> either have to juggle lots of data in the single-threaded ruby server
> to keep objects of the threaded counterart separate, or transfer data
> to-and-fro over the socket to the server.
I know, I know... But how much of Ruby internals are ready
for something like this in case of non-availability of true thread-safety
of Ruby?
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