From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-06-10T05:31:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9.x Concurrency

On Jun 9, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Tony Arcieri wrote:

> It used a lightweight concurrency library I wrote called Revactor  
> which is based around Fibers.  Each fetcher process used 64 Fibers  
> which would pull from the URL buffer in a round robin fashion.

I've very much a Fiber newbie, so forgive my dumb questions, but…

Fibers don't really give true concurrency either, right?  I'm not  
understanding how creating 64 of them speeds things up.

James Edward Gray II