On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 05:41:14PM -0700, Damon Hastings wrote: > > If the context-switching overhead turns out to be too high, then I will do > exactly that. But it will mean maintaining state for each connection, and > that state will only grow more complex with future enhancements by myself > and others. The big draw to Pth for me is the simplicity of threaded code > with the efficiency of a state machine. At least, I think it will be > efficient. I don't actually know at this point exactly how expensive a > context-switch in Pth is.
Keep in mind that each thread still has its own stack, which can be a lot of overhead as the number of threads grows. You mentioned connection state complexity rather than size, so maybe this isn't a concern for you. Jason ______________________________________________________________________ GNU Portable Threads (Pth) http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/ Development Site http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/pth/ Distribution Files ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pth/ Distribution Snapshots ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/pth/ User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager (Majordomo) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
