I think by default it keeps 10 threads around for running async operations.

Dave Newman  
@whatupdave


On Friday, 2 December 2011 at 4:09 PM, Dmytrii Nagirniak wrote:

> On 02/12/2011, at 3:47 PM, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) 
> wrote:
>  
> >  
> > Hi Dmytrii,
> >  
> > On 2 December 2011 15:37, Dmytrii Nagirniak <[email protected] 
> > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > >  
> > > On 02/12/2011, at 3:16 PM, Dave Newman wrote:
> > >  
> > > > You could use eventmachine.
> > > >
> > >  
> > > EM uses Threads under the hood. So it's doesn't seem to be cheap.
> >  
> > No - it works like node.js.  It uses event-driven I/O based on epoll, which 
> > is similar to libev (what node.js uses). It's fast (for Ruby) and cheap.  
> > Anything you can do in node.js you can do with EventMachine, libraries 
> > permitting.  
> Hmm. Interesting. The docs say that it does use threads internally:  
>  
> The action of defer 
> (http://eventmachine.rubyforge.org/EventMachine.html#M000486) is to take the 
> block specified in the first parameter (the “operation”) and schedule it for 
> asynchronous execution on an internal thread pool maintained by EventMachine 
> (http://eventmachine.rubyforge.org/EventMachine.html).  
>  
> But I guess it should indeed be cheap enough with the internal thread pool.
>  
> Thanks.
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