EventMachine vs. REE

gistfile1.txt

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'net/http'
require 'eventmachine'
require 'benchmark'

5.times do
  puts "URI get: (%.3fs)" % [Benchmark.realtime{ Net::HTTP.get URI.parse('http://www.google.com') }]
end

Thread.new do
  EM.epoll
  EM.run do
    puts "In the loop"
  end
end

5.times do
  puts "URI get: (%.3fs)" % [Benchmark.realtime{ Net::HTTP.get URI.parse('http://www.google.com') }]
end