On 8/2/10 2:00 PM, Aaron Richton wrote:
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, Howard Chu wrote:
One other realization I had is that the current design makes it very
easy to build slapd as either threaded or non-threaded. Pushing too
much activity into other threads would break the non-threaded builds.
But at this point, with even cellphones going dual-core, I have to
wonder how important it is to maintain compatibility for non-threaded
slapd builds.
I'm not so sure if it's important to maintain slapd non-threaded, but
it would still be nice to see libldap and other client-side needs
without threads. It's becoming rarely needed from a hardware
perspective, but the OS ecosystem to match seems to lag (either in
implementation timeline or implementation quality).
IMO, client lib should be single-threaded if needed, but the default
must be multi-threaded. Most of the 'clients' are in fact applications
with many contexts, so not having a multi-threaded client is probably
killing.
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Regards,
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
