I'm not reading all the threads here, but certainly the Hydra VM work  
could dovetail nicely with work on database queries that lock up the  
image thus causing issues with serving up web requests.


On May 11, 2008, at 2:09 AM, Janko Mivšek wrote:

> Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
>> Philippe Marschall wrote:
>
>>>> Out of curiosity, what would it be that you intend to let the  
>>>> users do
>>>> while longish queries are tickling the db?
>>>
>>> If you use Seaside: reply to other requests.
>> Sure, goes without saying. *but*what*else* ?
>
> For web apps it is really important not to block a whole web app  
> server while processing a single SQL request. What else? It can be  
> another SQL request running in parallel, or just building some web  
> pages from a cached data, etc etc. To repeat, threaded ODBC or  
> something similar is really needed for Squeak to be used in web app  
> world.
>
> Janko
>
> -- 
> Janko Mivšek
> AIDA/Web
> Smalltalk Web Application Server
> http://www.aidaweb.si
>

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