Kelvin Tan wrote:
Each of these stages will be handled in its own thread (except for HTML parsing
and scoring, which may actually benefit from having multiple threads). With the
introduction of non-blocking IO, I think threads should be used only where
parallel computation offers performance advantages.
Breaking up HttpRequest and HttpResponse, will also pave the way for a
non-blocking HTTP implementation.
I have never been able to write a async version of things with Java's
nio that outperforms a threaded version. In theory it is possible,
since you can avoid thread switching overheads. But in practice I have
found it difficult.
Doug
