[MLton] Multicore CPU's and MLton

[John Skaller]

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On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 12:43 +0200, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:

> I think MLton is just fine for developing extremely scaleable web service=
s.
> In fact, because continuations work so well at reimplementing state-threa=
ds,
> I would wager that an MLton-based webservice would destroy anything you
> compared it to, _especially_ on multi-processor machines.

I think you're missing the fundamental problem: sockets and=20
kernel TCP/IP stacks.=20

The only way to write a fast web server requires a raw socket
and a significant part of the TCP/IP stack will have to be=20
provided.

--=20
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sourceforge dot net>
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