Fwd: native threads

Bryce Kampjes bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk
Thu Apr 14 22:06:55 UTC 2005


David Shaffer writes:
 > Frankly I wouldn't want to write web applications with the
 > restrictions faced by the Yahoo developers.  However, the original
 > poster is right IMHO, Seaside is one of the best web servers around for
 > the group of applications for which it is designed.  I certainly hope we
 > make every effort to improve performance but threading just isn't at the
 > top of the list (JIT + PIC being first on my mind).

There is a dynamic compiler that uses PICs called Exupery. It only
works on x86/Linux but that's probably what most people are using for
web servers. My next priority is ironing out bugs to make it stable
enough for production use.

Bryce



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