[jdev] parsing xml (xmpp) with ruby

Jonathan Schleifer js-jdev at webkeks.org
Fri Oct 3 07:53:13 CDT 2008


Am 03.10.2008 um 13:48 schrieb Eric Will:

> Like I said, I don't really know anything about threading. From what I
> understand, doing a blocking read() call in a Ruby thread is going to
> block the entire program anyway, because Ruby doesn't do "real"
> threads.

Ruby doesn't use real threads, that's correct, but ruby is clever and  
won't internally use a blocking read() then. Ruby uses async read()  
then and block the thread.

--
Jonathan

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