From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-05-17T00:57:17+09:00
Subject: Re: TCP Sockets

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 08:45:17PM +0900, Brian Candler wrote:
> > How do for example P2P clients do that? One thread per connection?
> 
> I don't know what you mean by 'P2P', but a server talking to multiple
> clients would indeed normally have a separate thread per client. There's an
> example of a fake pop3 server at
> http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?SingletonTutorial
> (at the end of section 2)

It is my understanding that 1 thread/connection is considered to be less
scalable than a M:N model, with M threads taking caring of N sockets
each. That applies when using native threads, so I don't know to which
extent it can be mapped to Ruby's green ones.

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