From: Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@...>
Date: 2002-10-04T13:54:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Please help, question regarding threads

Hello Ben,

Thursday, October 03, 2002, 11:17:41 PM, you wrote:

>> if he writes server, not client, it is better to use one thread per
>> connection. also, ruby threads are very light and IMHO you can't save
>> time by simulating thread switching in your own code

BS> Would you care to explain why?

because you need to work with several connections in one thread,
emulating ruby own threads. on my 1200 mhz box, ruby primitives run in
about 1 microsec, thread switching is about 20 microsec, and
create+destroy thread is about 50 microsec

BS> is a bad idea. Keep in mind, however, that the thread implementation in
BS> ruby (the C interpreter) is likely to be radically different from an 
BS> implementation in JRuby (the Java interpreter).

may be or may be not. who knows :)

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 Bulat                            mailto:bulatz@integ.ru