From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e7151167e0767ecc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-stoc.telia.net!news-stoa.telia.net!telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: sv, sv-se, sv-fi, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: State Threads (was: Feasibility of using Ada in new development) References: <8429999a.0408231027.2850e800@posting.google.com> <5ad0dd8a.0408302222.56282d6f@posting.google.com> <4135498c_1@news.tm.net.my> <5ad0dd8a.0409040738.3fff41b8@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 12:18:39 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1094386719 217.209.116.179 (Sun, 05 Sep 2004 14:18:39 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 14:18:39 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3335 Date: 2004-09-05T12:18:39+00:00 List-Id: Marius Amado Alves wrote: > This State Threads project seems a waste of time to me. If I=20 > understand correctly, their objective is increasing web server=20 > performance by a small factor, namely not changing the order of=20 > magnitude. To me this is clearly a case where it much less costly to=20 > achieve the same result by throwing in more hardware. And keep=20 > programming in AWS with the run time and operative system as it is. That's probably true if you were writing it yourself for your own server = only, but what if it allows hundreds of thousands of people to each use=20 one server instead of two? --=20 Bj=F6rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu