From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2007-09-21T04:41:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Do C Extensions Block Ruby?

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On 9/20/07, Wayne E. Seguin <wayneeseguin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 :)



You might mention this to Kirk Haines. He 's already written an asynchronous
logger.

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