On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:31:08 +0530 Piyush P Kurur <ppk@cse.iitk.ac.in> wrote:
<begin rant> It is unfortunate that the usual fork and even pthread_create is not light weight enough for programming such high performance servers. The select based programming is more a hack than anything IMNSHO.
I always looked at it the other way 'round: threading is a hack to deal with system inadequacies like poor shared memory performance or an inability to get events from critical file types. Real processes and event-driven programming provide a more robust, understandable and scalable solutions. <end rant> <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org