[NCLUG] Netscape Instability
Sean Reifschneider
jafo at tummy.com
Tue Nov 21 16:23:11 MST 2000
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:16:42AM -0700, S. Luke Jones wrote:
>Whether they're OS-supplied threads or an internal creation is beside
>the point. There's no reason that an application programmer can't get
>it right too. People have been extending OS functionality in user space
Indeed. Last night I wrote an SMTP server that effectively emulates
threads which can process 100 e-mail connections per second using around
10% CPU time on my laptop. Works great...
The Linux Java implementation was using this mechanism for a long time
as well. Linux has had issues with threads in the past...
Sean
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Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo at tummy.com>
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