Re: [Chicken-users] thread scheduling: how about an idle-thread-hook?

[Perry E. Metzger]

Peter Keller <address@hidden> writes:
> Unfortunately, event driven programs break down during lengthy network
> protocol exchanges with multiple entities. The code writing you have to do
> to make starvation less of a problem (suppose one daemon talking to 400
> clients at the same time multiplexing between them) makes you wish you
> had threads.

Actually, I've built event driven systems that handle thousands of
clients quite easily. Threads break down very badly by the time you
get to that size --- you end up spending more time in the scheduler
than actually executing anything.

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Perry E. Metzger                address@hidden
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