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<H1>Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)</H1>
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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</A></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 01 May 97 11:16:39 -0700</LI>
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In <<A HREF="msg00305.html">199705020501.AAA14692#dfw-ix9,ix.netcom.com</A>>, on 05/01/97
at 10:04 PM, "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com> said:
>> From: Jeff Kesselman <jeffk#tenetwork,com>
>The implication is, if my definition of event-driven systems is
>correct, program control MUST be external to the procedural code of
>the events for a server to be truly "event-driven".
>Can it be done with a single-threaded 'dispatcher/monitor'?
>Certainly. If OS multi-threading is superior to software time-slicing
>on your platform then it would follow, that a multi-threaded
>event-driven server would outperform a single-threaded event-driven
>server regardless of how many CPUs your processor has.
>Are there any faults with this logic?
None here for the general case. The main reason to implement
appilication threads (I think MS calls them "fibers") is that you can
get a performance benefit and design simplification for co-operative
threading (eg explicit yields).
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00314" HREF="msg00314.html">More sendmail tests...</A></strong>,
coder <a href="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</a>, Sat 03 May 1997, 12:19 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00304" HREF="msg00304.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Fri 02 May 1997, 10:30 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00308" HREF="msg00308.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Sat 03 May 1997, 01:10 GMT
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Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Fri 02 May 1997, 11:56 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00309" HREF="msg00309.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Sat 03 May 1997, 01:24 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00306" HREF="msg00306.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Fri 02 May 1997, 12:42 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00310" HREF="msg00310.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Sat 03 May 1997, 07:46 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00311" HREF="msg00311.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)</A></strong>,
coder <a href="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</a>, Sat 03 May 1997, 08:36 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00312" HREF="msg00312.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Sat 03 May 1997, 10:21 GMT
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