Concurrency isn’t a “nice layer over pthreads” - the most important thing is isolation - anything that mucks up isolation is a mistake. — Joe Armstrong Thread

Concurrency isn’t a “nice layer over pthreads” - the most important thing is isolation - anything that mucks up isolation is a mistake. — Joe Armstrong Threads are evil. https://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q6 https://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q6 https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.pdf https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-... Nginx uses an asynchronous event-driven approach, rather than threads, to handle requests. https://aosabook.org/en/v2/nginx.html https://aosabook.org/en/v2/nginx.html http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html