[opendtv] Re: Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips

  • From: John McClenny <jamcclenny@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:50:20 -0500

I wasn't talking about static thread pools, just thread pools. How you do 
the thread pooling is OS specific and this isn't really the forum that has 
the depth to discuss this. If you want ot discuss thread pooling strategies 
and the treadeoffs between windows and Unix styles, go ahead. 
 On 6/13/05, Kon Wilms <kon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 13:58 -0500, John McClenny wrote:
> > > "Workstation apps will hardly mind, but the performance of server
> > > applications depends greatly on the threading, signalling and locking
> > > engine. I am no operating system expert, but with the data that we 
> have
> > > today, I think that a PowerPC optimised Linux such as Yellow Dog is a
> > > better idea for the Xserve than Mac OS X server."
> > Server Apps don't create threads on the fly, but build a pool of threads
> > and use them as required. Basic server software 101.
> 
> I guess dynamic thread pools as used by Apache and Oracle just fail your
> test then. Dynamic thread pools are core to other things too, like
> the .NET CLR, Java JVM, and so on. Static instantiation of threads where
> not needed equals a waste of system resources and is poor programming.
> If you want to create scalable systems you don't do it with static
> thread pools.
> 
> 'Basic server architecture errors 101' would be a better title for what
> you propose.
> 
> Cheers
> Kon
> 
> 
> 
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