novel idea for performance optimization

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Folks,

I am writing to thank you for your letters and say,

On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 11:34:09PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> sean finney wrote:
> >hey folks,
> >
  .. lots of interesting stuff snipped ..

> 
> Come to think of it, it should actually be possible to multiplex a 
> fairly large number of checks from a single thread using fdopen(3) and 
> select(2). This would let one get rid of locking problems with a 
> multi-threaded approach and would probably be highly efficient since the 
> fork()'ed children just sit around and wait all the time anyway.
> 

FWIW, threads aside (on grounds of ignorance), I think a multiplexed Nag 
was tried with patches to 1.x from an .au developer (the discussion was 
fairly brief on Nag-devel in the last 2-3 years; it probably occurred 
before you started to contribute to the project).

IIRC, he said his approach was like that used by squid.

If anyone is interested, perhaps I can find the thread (He only posted 
once or twice, perhaps did enough to get over the partic problem he was 
facing with and then ... silence).

> -- 
> Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
> OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
> Lead Developer

Yours sincerely.
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