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Re:Multi-threading is always the wrong design (2023) by packetlost on Friday April 04, 2025 @10:38PM (#43590158)
No, nginx uses a fixed number of worker processes and communicates primarily through explicit shared memory and message passing.

Threading works ok, but there's rarely much shared state so the fork and pipe / she model wins cleaner and more secure.

As for UIs: maybe! I'm sure it depends, but this isn't an area I know a ton about

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Re:Multi-threading is always the wrong design (2023) by andy24 on Sunday April 06, 2025 @05:43AM (#43600199)
Interesting perspective, I’ve never been thinking about this problem in terms of whether workers need shared memory space. Thank you!
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