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		yxhuvud on Sept 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Io_uring for Ruby Io uring have several use cases. You describe one, but it also enables things like no blocking file IO, which nothing else provides in a useful manner. Ruby can be slow in certain scenarios, but not slow enough that things like that doesxnt matter.

slashdev on Sept 9, 2024 [–]

Well that’s true. To do async file IO without that is really just using a thread pool.

Of course, I don’t see why that won’t perform fine for Ruby.

It’s just so slow that optimizing the async IO at the OS level doesn’t matter

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