On Sep 10, 9:57 am, Sam Smoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 30, 6:53 pm, oldmoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The thread will not block, only the fiber issuing the IO will. And you
> > can
> > have many fibers living in the same thread at a much lower cost than
> > spawning multiple threads in your application.
>
> I guess I fundamentally just don't get Fibers. If the fiber blocks,
> then it can't yield, so the thread is effectively blocked no?
So as far as I can figure out, this is accurate.
I think what I was forgetting was the GIL on 1.9. So I suppose it's
worth saying that I'm thinking more of something like JRuby's threads.
-Sam
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