Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Apr 1997 19:04:50 -0400 (EDT) | From | Todd Graham Lewis <> | Subject | Re: Threads question |
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On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 Eric.Schenk@dna.lth.se wrote:
> I see nothing about IRC that would make it work better with a single > thread per connection. It's just a little easier to program that way.
Exactly. I'm not saying that a combo approach is better technology per se, but rather that it allows the programmer to work with a threading model, even when strict threading would have negative side-effects.
> [Admission: I've never actually used IRC, so I might be talking out > of the side of my mouth on this one.]
Same here, for better or worse. One of our guys works on ircd (he's the one I got the stats from.)
-- Todd Graham Lewis MindSpring Enterprises tlewis@mindspring.com
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