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From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] non-blocking IO - threads
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 09:05:39 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzdPgxQnFWf-E99zEyZJBB5z23ZUKwj-Dffe9y5if9R-w3Qpg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202006022203.052M3wpa167150@darkstar.fourwinds.com>

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It's only messy if you make a messy job of it.

-rob


On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 8:36 AM Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com> wrote:

> Lawrence Stewart writes:
> > I’ve always thought select(2) was a pretty good thing.  In 1995 at Open
> > Market we had a single-process web server that had no difficulties
> > running 1000 to 1200 connections.  I think that was BSD, and later OSF-1.
>
> So select was a great thing until interactive graphics came along.  Just
> got too messy.  I recall writing assembly language code to support threads
> in the mid to late 1980s, and I remember reading some papers from Sun about
> the same.  Everybody was doing it.  Anybody have enough of the history to
> paint a picture of how we got from there to standardized threads?
>
> Jon
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-02 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-02 14:19 [TUHS] non-blocking IO Paul Ruizendaal
2020-06-02 17:45 ` Paul Winalski
2020-06-02 17:59   ` arnold
2020-06-02 18:53     ` Paul Winalski
2020-06-02 19:18       ` Clem Cole
2020-06-02 21:15         ` Lawrence Stewart
2020-06-02 22:03           ` [TUHS] non-blocking IO - threads Jon Steinhart
2020-06-02 23:05             ` Rob Pike [this message]
2020-06-02 23:09               ` Rob Pike
2020-06-02 23:21                 ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-03  0:39                   ` Rob Pike
2020-06-02 23:12               ` Jon Steinhart
2020-06-03 16:42                 ` Paul Winalski
2020-06-03 17:57                   ` Jon Forrest
2020-06-03  5:38           ` [TUHS] Unix on the Arpanet Lars Brinkhoff
2020-06-03 12:23             ` Lawrence Stewart
2020-06-02 18:23   ` [TUHS] non-blocking IO Dan Cross
2020-06-02 18:56     ` Paul Winalski
2020-06-02 19:23       ` Clem Cole

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