Re: (ITS#3665) Multi-Listener Thread Support

[Emmanuel Lécharny <elecharny@apache.org>]

 On 8/2/10 2:00 PM, Aaron Richton wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, Howard Chu wrote:
>
> > One other realization I had is that the current design makes it very 
> > easy to build slapd as either threaded or non-threaded. Pushing too 
> > much activity into other threads would break the non-threaded builds. 
> > But at this point, with even cellphones going dual-core, I have to 
> > wonder how important it is to maintain compatibility for non-threaded 
> > slapd builds.
>
> I'm not so sure if it's important to maintain slapd non-threaded, but 
> it would still be nice to see libldap and other client-side needs 
> without threads. It's becoming rarely needed from a hardware 
> perspective, but the OS ecosystem to match seems to lag (either in 
> implementation timeline or implementation quality).

IMO, client lib should be single-threaded if needed, but the default 
must be multi-threaded. Most of the 'clients' are in fact applications 
with many contexts, so not having a multi-threaded client is probably 
killing.


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Regards,
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
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