Re: some reasons why Apache 2.0 threaded is slower than prefork

[Ben Laurie]

Cliff Woolley wrote:
> 
> On 1 Mar 2001, Jeff Trawick wrote:
> 
> > This will be very useful, especially if the semantics of the list
> > operations will enable them to be implemented as lock-free operations
> > for certain platforms.
> 
> It's the "lock-free operations" part that I've been stumbling over so far.
> If we were just talking prefork, it'd be trivial... but keeping it
> thread-safe AND lock-free is quite a challenge.

If you could have pools that you guarantee not to share across
threads...

Cheers,

Ben.

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