Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:22:33 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1 |
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On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Chris Friesen wrote: > 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.
On an ftp server (or movie server, or ...) you CAN'T pin everything in RAM.
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