16 Jan
2014
16 Jan
'14
1:33 p.m.
2014/1/16 Giovanni Piero Deretta
I think that Harmut point is that you can very well use threads for the same thing. In this particular case you would just perform a syncronous read. Yes, to mantain the same level of concurrency you need to spawn ten of thousands of threads, but that's feasible on a modern os/hardware pair. The point of using fibers (i.e. M:N threading) is almost purely performance.
In the context of C10K problem and using the one-thread-per-client pattern I doubt that this would scale (even on modern hardware). Do you have some data showing the performance of an modern operating system and hardware by increasing thread count?