Re:An open question (rant) about Node.js
by EGreg on Friday March 14, 2014 @12:40PM
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Not just more difficult. Threads are really wasteful to spawn just so you can hit 10 shards. Even if you have a thread pool. Evented I/O is much better than threads.
When NGiNX launched, it was the evented web server in a sea of threaded servers. Guess which paradigm won.
Re:An open question (rant) about Node.js
by bascule on Friday March 14, 2014 @01:05PM
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It's not a dichotomy. The answer is that both models are useful, and most systems support hybrid threaded and evented modes. Node.js only supports one model, which is a huge drawback.
When NGiNX launched, it was the evented web server in a sea of threaded servers. Guess which paradigm won.