On 02/12/2011, at 4:38 PM, [email protected] wrote: > When you're handling I/O and not doing any CPU intensive operations, you > don't need to use defer.
That sounds like my case. Doing HTTP requests and just waiting for the response. If you don't use defer for that, what else? > On 2 December 2011 16:26, Dave Newman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Dmytrii, >>> >>> On 2 December 2011 15:37, Dmytrii Nagirniak <[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 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. >> >> But I guess it should indeed be cheap enough with the internal thread pool. >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > > -- > James > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
