On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 07:17:33AM -0500, Eric Lowe wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > >>Anyway, yes, I agree that if bending applications is on the table, > >>then many more things become "easy." > > > >I think it is on the table! > > > >I think most open source web and application servers, including Sun > >products, are very likely to adopt new APIs if they improve performance. > > I think this is the biggest challenge. > > Are the proposed sockets API extensions already supported by other OSes? > It would be nice if we could play the performance card without having it > trumped by the portability card, considering that network interfaces now > contain "giga" in the name instead of "mega" even on cheap machines. :)
So, if open source projects have adopted Solaris event ports I'm pretty sure they adopt other APIs. OTOH, standardization is a good thing. Nico -- _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
