> I see nothing about IRC that would make it work better with a single
> thread per connection. It's just a little easier to program that way.
Exactly. I'm not saying that a combo approach is better technology per
se, but rather that it allows the programmer to work with a threading
model, even when strict threading would have negative side-effects.
> [Admission: I've never actually used IRC, so I might be talking out
> of the side of my mouth on this one.]
Same here, for better or worse. One of our guys works on ircd (he's the
one I got the stats from.)
-- Todd Graham Lewis MindSpring Enterprises tlewis@mindspring.com