From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-05-14T19:16:55+09:00
Subject: Re: JRuby 1.3.0 will include Nailgun

David Palm wrote:
> This is so cool. I've been wanting something like it forever.
> 
> Is the nailgun implementation similar in concept to perperl (or 
> PersistentPerl, http://daemoninc.com/PersistentPerl/)? Is there anything 
> like it for MRI as well? In your opinion, would it be feasible?

It would be wonderful if it could have all the Rails Active* libraries 
preloaded; that would drastically shorten the startup time for unit 
tests etc.

I don't see in principle why it couldn't be done - I guess you just fork 
the process when a request comes in. The messy bit is passing the 
stdin/stdout/stderr file descriptors over a socket. And it could be 
called "railgun" :-)
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