Simon Willison’s Weblog

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.

# 7th October 2009, 11:42 am / ruby, exec, fork, programming, ryan-tomayko, unicorn, unix