native threads
Giovanni Giorgi
giorgi_g at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 14 18:24:54 UTC 2005
--- Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Ramiro Diaz Trepat <ramirodt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I believe that no serious server software will ever be possible
> > without preemtive multitasking, probably no client sofware either.
> Really? Have you not read about SeaSide, possibly the best webserver
> around?
Native threads are userful because of preemptive mutlitasking.
See the difference of stability of Mac OS System 9/8/7 and Mac Os X.
We can live without preemptive mutlitasking, (we lived without it in a
lot of system until 1995 and beyond).
But if you want to develop a good server in a very *simple* way you
definitevely need it at least in some situation.
It is too difficult to develop a multi-request server without native
threads: a single bug can stuck yoour beautiful server.
It would be interesting to have a nice FFI dll for squeak, to enable
it... :)
my 2 cents ;)
// Giovanni Giorgi http://www.siforge.org
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