Fwd: native threads

Cees de Groot cg at cdegroot.com
Thu Apr 14 19:27:46 UTC 2005


On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:22:28 -0300, Ramiro Diaz Trepat  
<ramirodt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you serious ????

He is. You're apparently trolling.

> Why do you think that no large web site uses Squeak?  Just because
> they are stupid computer illiterates?  The guys at Amazon, e-Bay,
> Google, Yahoo; they are just jerks, right?
>
No. They just happened to start out with different technologies. All of  
them have one thing in common: they don't rely on SMP computers, but  
rather on load balancing. So your point is totally moot.

> I know that languages like Java managed to do it properly, so I don't
> believe that argument.   Application Servers that are completely built
> in Java run perfectly on Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc. I see this
> every day.
>
Over half of the world's websites runs on Apache 1.x. Now please go back  
to the Apache documentation and check exactly how much multi-threading  
support Apache 1.x has. In case that question is too hard for you, the  
answer is: 'none'. Your point is unsupported by evidence (on the contrary,  
the often much simpler architected 'LAMP' applications seem to be the ones  
that often run perfectly rather than the needlessly complex Java apps) and  
completely irrelevant.

So, in a last effort to see whether you're serious here: please give me 1  
(ONE) use case where native multithreading is mandatory for an appserver.



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