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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
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Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
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* Ted Dennison wrote:
>2) Even though either language can do it just fine, I don't think "select"
>support is that big of a deal anyway. Most serious network servers
>(according to the literature I read) don't use select. They instead keep a
>pool of threads (tasks), and assign IP connections as they come in to the
>next available thread.

Ack.

>Using "select" would tie up your entire server into processing one request
>at a time, which might be OK for something that doesn't get hit a lot, but
>would be horrible for a server that may expect several simultanious
>requests from different parties. "select" probably has its uses, but it
>seems to mostly be a holdover from the pre-thread era.

Teergrubing requires select or poll to prevent a dDoS.