Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

bert hubert (ahu@ds9a.nl)
Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:42:01 +0100


On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:06:33AM +0000, James Sutherland wrote:

> performance than it would for an httpd, because of the long-lived
> sessions, but rewriting it as a state machine (no forking, threads or
> other crap, just use non-blocking I/O) would probably make much more
> sense.

pretty convoluted. Statemachines may produce more efficient code but can be
hell to maintain and expand. Bugs can hide in lots of corners.

Regards,

bert hubert

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