Eventmachine talk - Jan 2008 - Eventmachine-talk Digest, Vol 21, Issue 18

So it should compile just fine with 1.9. Sweet.  Does it work well
with other threads under 1.9, do you know?  I only use HEAD anyway.
Thanks for your help!
> It''s a trivial 2 line change to get your favorite version of EM
> working with 1.9.
>
> Since Base64 has been deprecated, you need to replace their usage in
> the SMTP client/server with the appropriate pack/unpack commands.
>
> Then, it just works.

On Jan 11, 2008 10:45 AM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
> So it should compile just fine with 1.9. Sweet.  Does it work well
> with other threads under 1.9, do you know?  I only use HEAD anyway.
> Thanks for your help!
>


Yup, fully interoperable with Ruby threads on all versions as far as I know.
The fact that 1.9 threads are native means that we can finally get some
benefits from multi-core hardware. HOWEVER, in a high-performance network
server that is handling high connection density, high throughput, or both,
the benefits of multicore are harder to realize. It''s the kernel and
the
memory bus that come under the greatest pressure in such applications.
EM-based apps that do a lot of computing in addition to I/O processing can
possible benefit.

That means we might see a lot more use of EM''s built-in thread pool,
EM#defer.
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