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Ah, good to know James! Of course non-blocking is what people want for stuff like websockets in most situations.
by andrewvc 14y ago
Ah, good to know James!
Of course non-blocking is what people want for stuff like websockets in most situations.
- weavejester 14y agoRight, websockets servers tend to need NIO otherwise you just wind up with too many threads to manage. However, streaming has uses outside of websockets; for instance, returning a response that's too large to want to hold in memory.
- gerrit 14y agoOr simply flushing out the <head> of a html document before the body is generated so the browser can start pre-fetching resources. That's the main use case that motivated Rails to implement streaming.