> What did you do to make is so cheap? In Campfire how is this different > than three people working on one todo list?
We rewrote the 100 lines of Ruby that handled the poll action in 300 lines of C. Jamis Buck did that in a couple of hours. Now each poll just does two super cheap db calls and polling is no longer a bottleneck. Campfire and a shared todo list is different because they're not working on a shared resource. There's no concept of locking. Or two people dragging the same item. So a 3 second delay between posting and showing up doesn't matter. It does when you're working on a shared resource. -- David Heinemeier Hansson http://www.loudthinking.com -- Broadcasting Brain http://www.basecamphq.com -- Online project management http://www.backpackit.com -- Personal information manager http://www.rubyonrails.com -- Web-application framework _______________________________________________ Rails-core mailing list Rails-core@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-core
