On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 13:29 -0800, Rick Richardson wrote:

> My only interest lies in high performance networking, specifically in a
> high connection / low data volume scenario (at this juncture at least).
> The optimal solution is some form of iocp with multiple threads (1 per
> open socket initiated at startup). 

The optimal solution is to use MLton, Haskell, or Felix,
which all give you a threading API without needing pthreads.

Ocaml bytecode with vmthreads does too, but I think it needs to be 
fixed to schedule using event notifications instead of select.

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John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
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