Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:10:17 -0400 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1 |
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David Schwartz wrote:
> The main reason I write multithreaded apps for single CPU systems is to > protect against ambush. Consider, for example, a web server. Someone sends it > an obscure request that triggers some code that's never run before and has to > fault in. If my application were single-threaded, no work could be done until > that page faulted in from disk.
This is interesting--I hadn't considered this as most of my work for the past while has been on embedded systems with everything pinned in ram.
Have you benchmarked this? I was under the impression that the very fastest webservers were still single-threaded using non-blocking io.
Chris
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