On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 03:59:51PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Susan and I have decided to revive an old idea we were originally going > to do in Python and implement it in Rust instead - a better IRC > server. Susan has years of field experience with IRC servers written > in C and says they're kludgy and terrible inside. A symptom is that > they tend to stall out at ridiculously low user counts; this is one > reason they have to be federated.
As someone who has expierence writing an IRC server, we've been doing 10K connections with a single threaded server on a single CPU system 20 years ago. And the bottleneck never was in the IRC server. Kurt _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
