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

[Vandoorselaere Yoann <yoann mandrakesoft com>]

Vandoorselaere Yoann <yoann@mandrakesoft.com> writes:

> 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 :-)

forgot: ( if libgnet implement gethostbyaddr() using a fork() too ). 

> 
> it will be kind of fun :)
> 
> ( no offence here ) 
> 


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