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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:50:21 -0800
From: Ian Holsman <ianh@apache.org>
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To: Jason Filby <jasonfilby@yahoo.com>, dev@apr.apache.org
Subject: Re: The APR
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Jason Filby wrote:
> --- Christian Gross <christiangross@yahoo.de> wrote:
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>>NSPR and APR definitely have similarities.  But there are some
>>slight differences (for example thread pools in NSPR).  But which
>>one is better?  There is not one REALLY better in terms of
>>functionality since each has their strengths.  For example in APR
>>you have pool based resource management.  This is a boon for any
>>programmer.
>>
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> Ok so APR doesn't have thread pools? Could this be implemented in the
> future or doesn't the existing architecture allow for that?
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> Cool. Thing is, I'm toying with the idea of writing an OO DBMS. So
> scalability and high performance are extremely important. Oracle uses
> a portable runtime, btw, there's is called VOS (Virtual OS).

hi Jason.
if you want high-performance you'll need to investigate async I/O
and things like direct I/O to implent your writers/readers
I don't think async I/O is in NSPR either BTW

also .. you might want to have a look at ACE
(http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html)
it's in C++ BTW

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> Thanks
> - Jason
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