This is a very important design distinction, not just implementation detail, If you know and internalize up front that SQLITE will run only on the thread you give it, you can architect your application better from the beginning and not e.g. go down one path initially and wonder how the get async behavior later.
I work on an old codebase where someone made some bad architectural decisions up front based on their misunderstanding of the SQLite execution model. It's virtually impossible to undo now without rewriting the app. - Deon -----Original Message----- From: sqlite-users <sqlite-users-boun...@mailinglists.sqlite.org> On Behalf Of Jens Alfke Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 9:32 AM To: SQLite mailing list <sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org> Cc: Rowan Worth <row...@dug.com> Subject: Re: [sqlite] New word to replace "serverless" > On Jan 28, 2020, at 3:18 AM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > > Things like MySQL-embedded and H2 run a "server" as a thread instead > of as a separate process. ... So this is really the same thing as a > server using IPC except that the server runs in the same address space > as the client. I see that as a mere implementation detail, since it doesn't affect the way the developer configures or uses the system. Running an engine on a background thread(s) is an increasingly common technique as CPUs become more concurrent, especially in mobile apps where it's forbidden to 'jank' up the GUI by blocking the main thread. For example, on iOS and macOS the HTTP client library (NSURLSession) and the 2d graphics compositing engine (CoreAnimation) do all their heavy lifting on background threads, but I wouldn't think of calling either of them server-based. —Jens _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
