[plug] POP goes the threading

[Christian]

On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 06:44:07PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> Christian wrote:
> > A guy I know wrote
> > a full POP3 server that did all it's IO from a single process using
> > select() -- no forking at all.  Apparently it was hell fast compared
> > with normal forking POP3 servers.
> 
> Maybe on Solaris or NT, unlikely on Linux - unless he also left most of
> the brains out of his POP server. (-:

It was entirely written and implemented on Linux actually.  He also
wrote a version of the code which did the normal fork()'ing and compared
the two for speed with the select()-based version being *significantly*
faster.  As has already been stated, POP3 servers in particular
demonstrate the speed of this approach since each client transaction is
generally very short.

Regards,

Christian.