From: Paul Richards <paul@originat.demon.co.uk>
Message-Id: <199601071727.RAA00651@originat.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: HTTP-ng, Anonymous and mSQL-Auth
To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 17:27:37 +0000 (GMT)
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 "Brian Behlendorf" at Jan 6, 96 08:31:44 pm
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In reply to Brian Behlendorf who said
> 
> On Sat, 6 Jan 1996, sameer wrote:
> > 	Is there a good reference on MT that I can look at? I don't
> > have a very good clue on what multi-threadedness is all about.
> 
> Dunno either.  Who on the list has experience with writing multithreaded 
> applications?  Should we make a public call-out for help?  I know there 
> are platform issues too, not all OS's do threading so Apache suddenly 
> becomes harder to port.

BSD's don't do multi-threading, big market to lose :-) On the other
hand, they're going to have to soon because it's a stumbling block
for java too.

I find it hard to believe though that NG will require multi-threading,
it's an implementation tool that can aid performance, it doesn't
provide any added functionality that can't be implemented with a
fork and shmem although at a performance hit.

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