At 10:03 PM 7/14/2002, Ryan Bloom wrote:
BTW, this whole conversation started because we wanted to speed up Apache. Has anybody considered taking a completely different tack to solve this problem?
I know there is a patent on this, but I am willing to ignore it, and I am pretty sure that we can get the patent owner to let us use it. (I won't say who owns the patent, but if the owner wants to stand up, it will be obvious why I say this). We could create a separate thread to keep track of the current time every second. That way, the computation is completely removed from request processing it is just a memory access. On platforms without threads, we just go back to getting the time during request processing. That will hurt performance for those platforms, but I am not too concerned about that.
Such code, of course, certainly doesn't belong in apr. That's a higher level construct that would fit well in http, or any other app that needs such performance tweaks. The app would have to decide how to live if it doesn't have threads available.
And there is the matter of IP :-)
Bill
