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In web languages threading is often not the win that people think it will be. True web scale is serving 1000s of requests per minute if not second. Each of thos
by drakaal 14y ago
In web languages threading is often not the win that people think it will be. True web scale is serving 1000s of requests per minute if not second. Each of those users is a "thread" in Python, Java, Etc. So enabling multiple threads per users robs Peter to pay Paul. For this reason the Async model doesn't offer the huge performance gains in deployed code to enterprise scale, that it offers to single users trying to build fast one off projects.
- lmm 14y agoYou seem confused. The whole point of the async model is to allow one thread to serve many users, and it's precisely on large scale projects that this becomes useful.