On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 09:42:08PM +0200, John B?ckstrand wrote: > >You are of course welcome to suggest ways to decrease the number of > >threads because - as you have mentioned quite correctly - threads are > >indeed expensive. Unfortunately in most cases it's either "use a thread" > >or "write several hundred lines of code and not use a thread." > > I generally loathe threads, I've written several non-blocking C++ > applications which are single-threaded. They are both clean (basically > event-driven, althouh on a slightly low level), efficient and very > easily debuggable (no locking/synchronization problems).
And inefficient on modern hardware. > > NIO in Java is a weird beast though, I can do this stuff easily in C++, > but NIO is hard to use. I also dont know if NIO is applicable to UDP? NIO is a major PITA. But UDP means we don't need to use NIO. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20060909/6b7b0786/attachment.pgp>
