Questions tagged [eventmachine]

EventMachine stands out as a quick and efficient reactor pattern tool designed for Ruby applications. Its key features include non-blocking IO APIs with seamless internal buffers, along with standard reactor functionalities like defer, next_tick, and timers. Please note that Eventmachine does not integrate Fibers and its core operates without threads for any IO operations, timers, or core infrastructure.

Is it necessary for libraries in Golang to be non-blocking?

Is it true that non-blocking web servers like node.js, eventmachine, and tornado can become unresponsive if they encounter a blocking library? Does the same hold true for Golang? If one goroutine becomes blocked, will another automatically be allocated C ...