Re: aws vs ruby rails or php? how much faster?

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Thu, 02 May 2013 23:13:24 +0200, Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com>  
a écrit:
> A bit of background: Janus/Ada uses it's own task management, so all  
> tasks
> run inside of a single OS process/thread. In our web server running on
> Windows 2K, we tried to use asynchonrous socket I/O to prevent unintended
> blocking from socket calls. But the effect was that the server ran 10  
> times
> slower than using busy-waited socket I/O; effectively W2K used only a  
> single
> OS thread to implement then asynchronous sockets and that effectively
> serialized everything going in and out of the server.

I don't understand how this can make it working ten times slower. W2K must  
be eating something in the while, which is not related to the asynchronous  
I/O. Or else, I don't understand…


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