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by agentultra 4863 days ago
I'm not a genius Ruby hacker by any stretch but if EventMachine is like any other "async IO framework" in other scripting languages then it is built on libev or libevent... so Ruby isn't really handling the connections, it's handling the callbacks. Pedantic, but important to note.
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> Pedantic, but important to note.

Pedantic, but "pedantic" actually idiomatically means "not important to note".

In what culture?

In my dictionary it's "of or like a pedant"; a pedant being someone who is overly concerned with minor details.

Still... noted!

If the detail is minor, it's not important.
EventMachine does not build upon libev or libevent. It implements all that stuff by itself.