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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by zenspider on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @03:48PM (#299782)
I'm much more familiar with threads in ruby. It would actually be a real boon to this project imo.

I don't have as much experience with python threads as I do ruby. I've toyed with the internals of python and perl as well and know perl to be a wasteland and python to be rather elegantly clean. So I would expect python's threads to be better implemented. Poking at it, it does appear to be so.

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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by jmtulloss on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @06:24PM (#299885)
Doesn't ruby only have green threads?
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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by michaelneale on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @07:56PM (#299942)
Yes - unless its jruby then they are non green (forget the term for it at this time of the morning).
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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by zenspider on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @02:59PM (#300645)
yes... and they're great. Esp for situations like the OP was describing. Fire off a ton of incredibly lightweight threads and they'll quietly sit waiting for IO... perfect.
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