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diff --git a/pipermail/nel/2000-November/000052.html b/pipermail/nel/2000-November/000052.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..806025f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/pipermail/nel/2000-November/000052.html @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Nel] Some questions about network implementation</TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:zager%40teleaction.com"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="000048.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="000053.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Nel] Some questions about network implementation</H1> + <B>Dim Segebart</B> + <A HREF="mailto:zager%40teleaction.com" + TITLE="[Nel] Some questions about network implementation">zager@teleaction.com</A><BR> + <I>Wed, 22 Nov 2000 17:12:32 +0100</I> + <P><UL> + <LI> Previous message: <A HREF="000048.html">[Nel] Release Schedule and some questions ?</A></li> + <LI> Next message: <A HREF="000053.html">[Nel] Some questions about network implementation</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#52">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#52">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#52">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#52">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>Hello ! +Today I have found very interesting library from SGI +(<A HREF="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/state-threads/">http://oss.sgi.com/projects/state-threads/</A>) +It's based on Netscape Portable Runtime library (NSPR) +and amed on creating high perfomance network applications. +Look at documentation +(<A HREF="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/state-threads/docs/st.html">http://oss.sgi.com/projects/state-threads/docs/st.html</A>) +><i>From documentation: +</I> +It is contained in 8 source files as opposed to more than 400, but +provides all the +functionality that is needed to write efficient IAs on UNIX-like +platforms. + + NSPR State Threads + Lines of code ~150,000 ~3000 + + Dynamic library size +(debug version) + IRIX ~700 KB ~60 KB + Linux ~900 KB ~70 KB + +State Threads is an application library which provides a foundation for +writing Internet Applications. To summarize, it has the following +advantages: + + It allows the design of fast and highly scalable applications. An +application will scale well with both load and number of CPUs. + It greatly simplifies application programming and debugging +because, as a rule, no mutual exclusion locking is necessary and the +entire application is free to use static variables and non-reentrant +library functions. + +The library's main limitation: + All I/O operations on sockets must use the State Thread library's +I/O functions because only those functions perform thread scheduling and +prevent the application's + processes from blocking. + + +I'm just wonder, what is the implimenantion design of NeL server-side +according to the above document ? + + + +</pre> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI> Previous message: <A HREF="000048.html">[Nel] Release Schedule and some questions ?</A></li> + <LI> Next message: <A HREF="000053.html">[Nel] Some questions about network implementation</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#52">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#52">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#52">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#52">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> +</body></html> |