Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 05 Sep 1999 22:41:06 -0700 | From | Lincoln Dale <> | Subject | Re: > 15,000 Simultaneous Connections |
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At 05:27 AM 9/6/99 +0000, Steve Underwood wrote: > > >I think a HOWTO on this subject might be in order :) > > > > i'm not sure this can be covered in a HOWTO document. > > don't take this the wrong way, but if you have to ask how to code something > > for efficiency in this manner, expecting to find samples in a HOWTO is > > rather much a pipe dream. > >I think that is true of a genuine HOWTO. I do wish someone would produce a >survey >of the strategies used by major applications, though. It would make assessing >existing solutions for their strengths and weaknesses so much easier. Its >something large numbers of us do independantly, with consequent wasting of >humanity's precious resources. I'm not volunteering, so I can't expect >anyone else >to either. It would be real useful, though.
i agree that many people have individually gone over the same things over and over, to find the best way to do something.
however, it is a chicken-and-egg type problem -- imho, you cannot get the knowledge to know what works best, until you've experimented, and found the best way.
a HOWTO document could only generalize. there's nothing stopping a badly-written event-driven model or threaded model performing worse than that of straight fork()/exec() type stuff.
cheers,
lincoln.
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