[TUHS] non-blocking IO - threads
Rob Pike
robpike at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 09:05:39 AEST 2020
It's only messy if you make a messy job of it.
-rob
On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 8:36 AM Jon Steinhart <jon at fourwinds.com> wrote:
> Lawrence Stewart writes:
> > I’ve always thought select(2) was a pretty good thing. In 1995 at Open
> > Market we had a single-process web server that had no difficulties
> > running 1000 to 1200 connections. I think that was BSD, and later OSF-1.
>
> So select was a great thing until interactive graphics came along. Just
> got too messy. I recall writing assembly language code to support threads
> in the mid to late 1980s, and I remember reading some papers from Sun about
> the same. Everybody was doing it. Anybody have enough of the history to
> paint a picture of how we got from there to standardized threads?
>
> Jon
>
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