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From: Eric Wong <normalperson-rMlxZR9MS24@public.gmane.org>
To: Rainbows! list <rainbows-talk-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Alternatives to EventMachine for async.callback
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:28:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130118202848.GA30420@dcvr.yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+-9oNc-N-rbj235oDXUPf3ex=7q8TY5o7pJBMAnqjbdGsSAtQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>

"W. Andrew Loe III" <andrew-4trK/3dDa6Nl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> The documentation
> (http://rainbows.rubyforge.org/Rainbows/EventMachine.html)
> specifically lists EventMachine as compatible with this model. Are
> there alternative ways to get this type interface without
> EventMachine? My current application is using the EventMachine loop to
> answer requests and spawn Celluloid Actors (which are in their own
> threads) which write back to the main thread. Seems like maybe I
> should just use a Thread-per-client model? I'm currently using Sinatra
> to do the HTTP acrobatics.

Thread-per-client is a perfectly good model, especially on 64-bit.

async.callback was only added because Thin supports it; and I
don't think anybody's tried to make it work without EM.  IMHO
it's ugly.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-18 18:33 Alternatives to EventMachine for async.callback W. Andrew Loe III
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2013-01-18 20:28   ` Eric Wong [this message]
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2013-01-18 22:04       ` W. Andrew Loe III

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