Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jun 1998 09:05:58 +0200 | From | Erik Corry <> | Subject | Re: Thread implementations... |
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In article <6msk1d$n4$1@palladium.transmeta.com> you wrote:
> Now, I'm no NT person, but I suspect that we actually do want to have a > "sendfile()" kind of thing just because it should be fairly easy to > implement, and would offer some interesting performance advantages for > some cases. No, it's not truly generic, but it is useful enough in many > circustances.
I'm a little curious as to which circumstances you are thinking of. As far as I can see, it's a syscall for a single application (a web server serving static objects) which is basically little more than a benchmark. If you really have such a hugely loaded web server you are likely to be doing lots of database lookups, cookie-controlled variable content, shtml, other cgi trickery, etc. And if you really just want to serve static objects as fast as possible, a round-robin DNS with multiple servers gets you more robustness and a solution that scales above Ethernet speeds.
Would we just be doing this to look good agains NT in webstones?
-- Erik Corry
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