Apache moved from using a thread per connection to fibers years ago [1]. Fibers are simpler than green threads (cooperative multitasking via yielding) which sho

Apache moved from using a thread per connection to fibers years ago [1]. Fibers are simpler than green threads (cooperative multitasking via yielding) which should be illustrative of how good an idea the "thread per connection" model is. Although it could be argued that fibers are a type of primitive thread--so as long you don't mean OS thread the idea has merit. [1] http://httpd.apache.org/dev/whiteboard/process-model.html http://httpd.apache.org/dev/whiteboard/process-model.html