From: Stewart Smith
Date: May 13 2009 2:46pm
Subject: Re: MySQL Reengineering Project
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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 03:19:41PM -0700, Masood Mortazavi wrote:
> Server designs that assign a session to a worker thread are classic.
> However, even in these designs, there may be multiple threads
> attending to a particular session's various functions during its
> lifecycle. In some languages, the base threading libraries offer a
> thread-local object can be assigned or identified with the session
> context for current task being processes by a given thread.

Running 10,000 threads usually isn't nice to your operating system
kernel (or user response time).
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Stewart Smith