From: Idan Sofer <idan@...>
Date: 2002-12-14T04:43:04+09:00
Subject: Re: TCP Server

Bill Kelly wrote:

>  
>
>I prefer to use select() than threads, for a couple reasons, in Ruby.
>My sense is that, since the whole process is blocked (all your threads)
>if one of your IO calls stalls (in any thread), then you have to find
>a way to do non-blocking IO whether you're using threads or not.  And I
>personally find select() to be sufficient to the task without bothering
>with threads.  (It may just be personal opinion, or preference. :)
>  
>
I have not encountered such situation when using threads.

My application have a set of worker threads, which either serve a 
client, waiting on a Mutex protecting accept(), or waiting at accept(), 
so there is always one thread waiting on accept(), and the application 
does not block.

I suppose Ruby does some tricks to overcome the blocking.

Idan.