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Re:Tornado: FriendFeed's non-blocking Python web server is n... by riobard on Friday September 11, 2009 @11:09AM (#817466)
It doesn't solve the context _switching_ cost.
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Re:Tornado: FriendFeed's non-blocking Python web server is n... by kingkongrevenge on Friday September 11, 2009 @11:42AM (#817528)
This just isn't a substantial cost any more. With the latest kernels, thread per connection servers are competitive with event driven servers. This was not true a few years ago.
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