From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2010-01-10T23:13:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Non-blocking communication between Ruby processes


On Jan 9, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Iņaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> Posix message queues are just 20-40% slower than pipes in my benchmarks (but 
> pipes are no multiprocess/thread safe).

I believe pipes can be used concurrently if reads and writes are less than
or equal to PIPE_BUF bytes.  Is the size limitation the problem you were
hinting at or something else?

Gary Wright