Introducing Phat, a new approach to asynchronous Rails apps

http://www.mikeperham.com/2010/04/03/introducing-phat-an-asynchronous-rails-app/

by _pius • 16 years ago

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JimBastard• 16 years ago

node

ghotli• 16 years ago

Sure node.js is asynchronous, fast, and fun to work with like rails. I downvoted you because your comment was nearly useless to someone who didn't already know what you were talking about. If you've got some advice, provide supporting information.

wmf• 16 years ago

Basically green threads. I guess this helps amortize the per-VM Ruby memory overhead.

sandofsky2• 16 years ago

Not really. From the article:

"single Thread, multiple Fiber"

Fibers are not threads. Rather than preemptive multithreading, it's cooperative. This means the VM isn't wasting time on requests blocked on IO.

sreque2• 16 years ago

Green threads don't waste time on requests blocked on IO either. Both styles involve a software-level scheduler. The only difference between what most people call green threads and what most people call fibers is that one is preemptive and the other is cooperative. I actually prefer coding in the preemptive style.

extension• 16 years ago

http://www.espace.com.eg/neverblock is another implementation of the same idea.

Introducing Phat, a new approach to asynchronous Rails apps

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