Rob Warnock wrote: > Pisin Bootvong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +--------------- > | No matter how scalable your language is, you cannot make a 100MHz/128MB > | server serve 100,000 client a second over the internet. > +--------------- > > Sure you can! That's ~1000 CPU cycles/request, which [assuming at least > a 100BASE-TX NIC] is plenty to service 100K *small* requests/s... ;-} > > Of course, you might have to write it in assembler on bare metal, > but the good news is that with only a 1000 cycle budget, at least > the code won't be very large! ;-} >
Well, I was really asking for a service that really service something complicate and useful though :-D And donot forget to account for OS CPU time (well may be you can write your own OS for it too :-D ) > > -Rob [someone who remembers 0.5 MIPS DEC PDP-10s being used > for >100 simultaneous commercial timesharing users] > > ----- > Rob Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 627 26th Avenue <URL:http://rpw3.org/> > San Mateo, CA 94403 (650)572-2607 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
