"Daniel Berger" <djberg96 / hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:1107382523.162768.105890 / z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com... > Hi all, > > Are there any plans to add support for the POSIX functions aio_read, > aio_write, aio_waitn and aio_cancel to the Ruby standard library? > > I thought perhaps an AIO (or perhaps NIO, ala Java) class would be > worthwhile. That or add methods to the existing IO class. > > Or is there no point in doing that? Does io-reactor (RAA) already more > or less accomplish the same goal? My 0.02 EUR: I prefer to use threads for concurrent IO because that makes up for much simpler code. Note also, that Ruby internally already uses nonblocking IO. Kind regards robert