hi, excuse my noobness, I have a few basic questions about twisted, or probably about web servers in general.
what is the advantage of using a single-threaded server? i figured it makes it more scalable because there's too much overhead to have a thread for each user when you have many simultaneous users. but a friend i'm talking to now says that using i/o blocking threads is perfectly scalable for a large number of simultaneous users. if that's true i can only see a disadvantage in using a single-threaded server -- having to use deferreds and stuff to make things asynchronous i also don't understand how you're supposed to use deferreds the twisted doc says deferreds won't *make* your code asynchronous. so let's say you have to do an sql query that takes 10 seconds, deferreds would be useless for making that not block unless you have a way of making that sql query non-blocking already? how is that done? do you run a separate thread of your own for each sql query? one thread for all sql queries? also I wonder in an typical twisted app, just how slow should an operation be before you use a deferred? what if a user enters a username and password and i have to look that up in the database. do i use a deferred? just how bad should the query be before using a deferred? (reading the twisted docs is like reading a brick wall for me, it would be nice if someone could just explain things to me in simple terms.) thx
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