From: Dalibor Sramek <dali@...>
Date: 2003-01-06T15:44:11+09:00
Subject: Re: What it more efficient fork or thread ?

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 03:30:25PM +0900, Jonas Hoffmann wrote:
> I will write a small TCPServersystem and my question is, what is more 
> efficient for that, always start a Childprocess if there is a new connenction 
> request or should i only start a new thread . And what is easier to handle ?

For a small server the threaded model is IMO both more eficient and easier
to handle. The skeleton for the threaded TCP server is just a few lines of
Ruby code.

In general - it depends. For example you can not run different threads on
different CPUs which is possible with different processes.

Regards,

Dalibor Sramek 


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