Sutter's ISO C++ Trip Report - The best compliment is when someone else steals your ideas....

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 7/13/18 3:53 PM, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
> On Friday, 13 July 2018 at 13:15:39 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On 7/13/18 8:55 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 11 July 2018 at 12:45:40 UTC, crimaniak wrote:
>>>> This error handling policy makes D not applicable for creating WEB 
>>>> applications and generally long-running services.
>>>
>>> You use process isolation so it is easy to restart part of it without 
>>> disrupting others. Then it can crash without bringing the system 
>>> down. This is doable with segfaults and range errors, same as with 
>>> exceptions.
>>>
>>> This is one of the most important systems engineering principles: 
>>> expect failure from any part, but keep the system as a whole running 
>>> anyway.
>>
>> But it doesn't scale if you use OS processes, it's too heavyweight. Of 
>> course, it depends on the application. If you only need 100 concurrent 
>> connections, processes might be OK.
> 
> Came on, Steve...  100 concurrent connections?

Huh? What'd I say?

-Steve