> Stephen Pair wrote:
>
> > We use Squeak to serve NetUnify.com and Swiki.net with great success.
>
> Wow! All this you said is very important to me... I'm predicating that
> Squeak is ready
> to be used to build web applications, and part of my thoughts are
> based on the
> fact that
> swiki.net and netunify.com are up and running. Knowing that you
> are not having
> problems
> with performance is so good...
> Can you share with us some statistics? hits counts, traffic,
> etc. If you
> don't have any
> problems with it (and you have the data handy), of course.
We are running at about 30,000 hits (http requests) per day right now.
That's pretty light, but it really hasn't taxed Squeak at all yet.
> > We did however write our own socket interface to take advantage of NT's
> > enhanced (as compared to Win9x) socket API.
>
> This is great, and all the other stuff you did too.. Are all this
> improvements available somewhere?
> Are you planning to release all this?
Most of it is available (a lot of it is already in Comanche)...XSockets (NT
specific socket code) is not, mostly because it's not yet fully implemented
or debugged. Also, it's a diferent set of primitives from the standard
sockets, so using it may render you dependent on it, and then not portable
(though you can achieve portability at the Socket class level).
Some of our latest HTTP tweaks are still not available, not because we're
stingy, but because we're swamped. We're running a back level version of
Squeak right now, so anything we put out requires a bit of testing and
possibly some modification to get it working on the latest release.
- Stephen
