Re: [boost] asio formal review begins

From: Stefan Seefeld (seefeld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-15 14:31:51

Thore Karlsen wrote:

>>>How are you reading and writing from multiple sockets simultaneously in
>>>your main thread?
> 
> 
>>I was not.  I was reading/writig from the worker threads.  The main thread
>>was used only to accept connections.
> 
> 
> So in that case you are handling one connection per thread, which does
> not scale well.

I'm sorry, but your conclusion seems wrong. If a dispatcher thread
puts requests into a queue for worker threads to consume, it's most
definitely *not* a thread-per-connection design, but a thread pool.

It would be a thread-per-connection if threads were created
as a result of new connection requests being put into the queue. But
that he (apparently) isn't doing.

Regards,
                Stefan