From: Brad Tilley Date: 2007-02-22T06:52:30+09:00 Subject: Re: threads within a thread Quoting Francis Cianfrocca : > What's the nature of the probe that you're doing? A TCP connect on a given > port? If so, look at EventMachine (on Rubyforge). You may be able to > significantly improve on your runtime. That's the extent of it (TCP connect). I tried EventMachine, but I found plain old threads to be simpler for me to use. I could not get my head wrapped around EventMachine. Can't teach an old dog new tricks :)