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by weavejester 5125 days ago
Right, 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.
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gerrit 5125 days ago
Or 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.
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