On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 09:08 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > At 03:21 27/07/2005, Mrs. Brisby wrote: > >On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 09:48 -0500, Jay Sprenkle wrote: > > > The theory has been proposed that threads aren't better than separate > > > processes, or application implemented context switching. Does anyone > > > have an experiment that will prove the point either way? It will have > > > to be OS specific though, since I'm sure not all thread > > > implementations are equal. > > This page might be interesting.. http://john.redmood.com/osfastest.html
My PII-350 easily handles 2 million local deliveries per hour, and it fork()s for each one. As has been mentioned: If you think threads are going to make your program fast, you don't know what you're doing. Unit testing and a profiler will give much greater performance gains than trying to emulate piece of shit applications like MailEngine.
