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You're spot on. NIO has always been slower but it allows you to process more concurrent connections. It's essentially a time/space trade-off: traditional IO is

You're spot on. NIO has always been slower but it allows you to process more concurrent connections. It's essentially a time/space trade-off: traditional IO is faster but has a heavier memory footprint, NIO is slower but uses less resources.

dylanz 16y ago
... and I think your synopsis is spot on as well. If someone could counter this, I'd love to hear it.