[ANN evdispatch]

[Tony Arcieri]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Todd Fisher <todd.fisher at gmail.com> wrote:

> I also really like to avoid multi-threading, but I'm afraid given the
> limitation of the ruby language (not that it doesn't make up for them in
> other ways) it's only possible to take full advantage of libev by running
> it's event loop in a separate thread independent of ruby's own scheduling.
>

Both Rev (http://rev.rubyforge.org/) and Ebb (http://ebb.rubyforge.org/) run
libev alongside Ruby 1.8's scheduler by effectively busy-waiting on
rb_thread_schedule().  Rev also supports making long-running system calls
with Ruby 1.9's new rb_thread_blocking_region().

-- 
Tony Arcieri
medioh.com
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