From: "Wayne E. Seguin" Date: 2007-09-21T03:06:36+09:00 Subject: Re: Do C Extensions Block Ruby? --Apple-Mail-3--596479172 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Sep 20, 2007, at 13:40 , Ilmari Heikkinen wrote: > And logging touches disk, not like the 10 usec or so spent in > rb_funcall > is going to do much difference there :| Actually the reason that I brought this question up is that I am working on an asynchronous logger for Ruby whose main purpose is to remove the Blocking IO time from the equation in order to greatly speed up production apps running on a POSIX compliant OS. The project is on rubyforge as "AlogR" but is not ready to be released just yet. Suggestions are most welcome :) ~Wayne s///g Wayne E. Seguin Sr. Systems Architect & Systems Administrator --Apple-Mail-3--596479172--