Yo Hal!

On Sun, 08 Jan 2017 16:32:48 -0800
Hal Murray <[email protected]> wrote:

> What should our code look like in the long term?  Will crypto chew up
> a lot of cycles?  Could a busy server support more clients by running
> several threads in parallel on multiple CPUs?

Yes, threads will help a lot.  I remember when Apache and Mysql started
to use good threading.  It really helps when you can use all 16 cores
on a CPU instead of just one.

> Eric has occasionally said non-good things about threads.

And I 100% agree, if we are talking about Python threads.  With the
GIL the performance is no improvement over single trheaded.

RGDS
GARY
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