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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:19:56 -0600 (CST)
From: Austin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com>
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Subject: Re: SGI's Accelerating Apache Project and contributions
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As someone who monitors this mailing list constantly, I would like to
commend all involved with the Apache Server Project. I would definitely
like to see more of this kind of mediation on such a touchy subject.
Thanks to Bill Stodard and Mike Abbott for begining to get this worked
out. I believe that not only can the ASF's Apache Server gain from some of
these patches, but that SGI can inherit some knowledge from this
experience as well. Good luck!

-- 
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin@coremetrics.com

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Mike Abbott wrote:

> I have just one thing to say, intentionally ignoring the inflammatory
> and revisionist statements made recently:  You tell me which functional
> parts of the patches you pledge to commit and I'll slice and splice the
> patches any way you want to make those parts easy to integrate.
>
> Here are the parts available:				For 1.3	For 2.0
> -----------------------------				-------	-------
> warning-free 64-bit port				yes	no
> optimized request parsing				yes	yes
> optimized common logging				yes	yes
> optimized time-of-day queries and conversions		yes	yes
> unnecessary syscalls optimized away			yes	yes (1)
> unnecessary accept serialization optimized away		yes	yes (1)
> QSC (cached HTTP response headers)			yes	yes
> Irix specific optimizations				yes	no
> mod_mmap_static/mod_file_cache optimizations		yes	yes
> cache of recent file stat() results			yes	no (2)
> bug fixes						yes	yes
> state-threaded MPM (STM)				no	yes
>
> (1) Implementation for 2.0 requires STM but 1.3 version could be ported
> for other MPMs.
> (2) Could be ported from 1.3, just hasn't been.
>
> For more information see http://oss.sgi.com/projects/apache/
>