From: Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>
Date: 2010-03-22T03:43:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Speeding up TCP

On Mar 21, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Sean Warburton wrote:

> I have a script that opens a TCP socket and then sends an XML request
> using SSL over the socket, it then receives an answer back from the
> server. The whole send and receive is taking between 160 and 175
> milliseconds total (not including opening the socket) but I know others
> using PHP and Perl have this down to around 130 milliseconds and I
> wonder if Ruby has any tricks up its sleeve that would speed thing up a
> little.

Show us your code. It's impossible to say that the performance issue is with network and not with other processing you are performing on the data from what little you've said.

Barring that, take a look at the Eventmachine library (available as a gem). It allows you to build clients and servers using non-blocking I/O.

cr