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

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 7/13/18 4:47 PM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
> On Friday, 13 July 2018 at 20:12:36 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> 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:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>
> orders of magnitudes too small. 100 concurrent connections you can 
> handle with a sleeping arduino... :-)
> 

Meh, I admit I don't know the specifics. I just know that there is a 
reason async i/o is used for web services.

Let's say there is a number N concurrent connections that processes are 
OK to use. Then you can scale to 100xN if you use something better.

-Steve