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HerroRygar on Feb 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ace - Sinatra for Node with Fibers

Quoted from the documentation: "Every request is wrapped in a Node Fiber".

So...essentially, this behaves like a traditional web server? A process listens for incoming connections, then spins up a new process/thread/fiber to handle the request?

maccman on Feb 15, 2012 | [–]

No - a Fiber is completely different to a process/thread. The server is still evented. https://github.com/laverdet/node-fibers

tjholowaychuk on Feb 15, 2012 | [–]

each "fiber" still consumes a relatively large stack, so in effect you're right

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