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

[Vandoorselaere Yoann <yoann mandrakesoft com>]

Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> writes:

> 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.
> 

Sorry, but i would like to see on a gigabyte system,
a tcpdump using such a library in order to resolve :-)

it will be kind of fun :)

( no offence here ) 

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