Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1

Chris Friesen
2002-09-24T21:05:19Z

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.

Have you benchmarked this? I was under the impression that the very
fastest webservers were still single-threaded using non-blocking io.

Chris