Re: Sort-of Announce: Gnet, a network library

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On 6 Jan 2000, Vandoorselaere Yoann wrote:

> And what do you do of the time for :
> - allocating a new process.
> - Put it into scheduling table.

Negligible.

> What about critical speed application using your library ?

"Critical speed applications" won't use DNS at all, which is millions of
times slower than process creation or other overhead. This is why the
'HostnameLookups' setting in Apache has such a big performance impact.

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