> It was new, shiny, and multithreaded sigh, when will people learn about asynchronous I/O. It would be interesting to see if something like this could be imp

> It was new, shiny, and multithreaded sigh, when will people learn about asynchronous I/O. It would be interesting to see if something like this could be implemented in a programming language that has relatively "slow" virtual machines (e.g. Ruby) but base it on a fast event-processing library (e.g. Eventmachine). The tracker doesn't do a lot computation. It's mostly I/O, isn't it? Another interesting choice would be node.js. A framework that seems to be optimized for that kind of architecture. A bit of caching and a scalable backend (e.g. Riak) would be a nice combination...