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7th October 2009 - Link Blog

I like Unicorn because it's Unix. Ryan Tomayko analyses Unicorn, a new, pre-forking Ruby HTTP server that makes extensive use of Unix syscalls and idioms, and asks why dynamic language programmers don’t take advantage of these more often.

Posted 7th October 2009 at 11:42 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 7th October 2009.

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