From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@...>
Date: 2007-10-28T21:45:03+09:00
Subject: Re: A memcached-like server in Ruby - feasible?

On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 07:31:30AM +0900 Tom Machinski mentioned:
> 
> 2) Is this task doable in Ruby?  Or maybe only a Ruby + X combination
> (X probably being C)?
> 

I beleive, you can achive a high efficiency in server design by using
event-driven design. There're some event libraries for ruby available,
e.g. eventmachine. In this case the scalability of the server should
be comparable with the C version.

Thread will have a huge overhead in case of many clients.

BTW, the original memcached uses event-driven design too, IIRC.

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Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE