Re: debate on 700 threads vs asynchronous code

[Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>]

Mark Mielke wrote:

>>And, for what it's worth, programmer productivity is sometimes
>>more important than all the above.  I happen to work
>>at a place where performance is worth a lot of extra effort,
>>but other shops prefer to throw hardware at the problem and
>>not worry about that last 10%.
>>    
>>
>
>Definately an argument for the one thread per connection model. :-)
>
I would disagree.  One thread per connection is easier to conceptually 
understand.  In my experience, an event-driven model (which is what you 
end up with if you use one or a few threads) is actually easier to 
correctly implement and it tends to make your code more modular and 
portable.

-Corey