Re: Performance techniques used in AWS

[Natasha Kerensikova <lithiumcat@gmail.com>]

Hello,

On 2011-06-14, R. Tyler Croy <tyler@linux.com> wrote:
> What I'm trying to work out in my head is how to build an application (in 
> Ada) that can compete[0] effectively with a libev-based program written in 
> C. The advantage that libev brings to the table is that this program (in 
> C) can very easily handle and respond to tens of thousands of concurrent 
> connections.

I don't think that really counts as competing, but I was planning at
some point in the future to write a thin Ada binding to libevent2 -- not
so much for performance, which is only a happy side-effect, but for the
simplicity and homogeneity of the callback-based multiplexing it offers.
However I still feel the need for a better mastery of the language
before starting such a project.

Does anyone have any objection to such an idea?

Or would anyone have any hint I could use for such a thin binding,
and/or for thickening it?


Thanks in advance,
Natasha