On Jan 24, 2005, at 7:39 PM, Joao Pedrosa wrote: > When I think about serving large binary files with WEBrick, I soon > realize that we really need webservers. with large files the difference is theoretically *much* lower. its the small files that suffer from latency problems for a webserver written in pure ruby. i imagine that ruby2c + some clever profiling will get some damn impressive results. Alex