Sidekiq vs Resque, with MRI and JRubyBefore we dive into the benchmarks of Resque vs Sidekiq it will first help to have a better understanding of how forking and threading works in Ruby. Threading vs Forking Forking When you fork a process you are creating an entire copy of that process: the address space and all open file descriptors. You get a separate copy of the address space of the parent process, isolating any work done to that
