process pools?

[Julian Assange]

> 
>  >         2) What is the best method to implement worker threads? i.e
>  >            I'd like a pool of processes (one for each outbound
> 
> The other reason I've seen thread pools used is in situations where
> some expensive initialisation has to be done. It doesn't sound like
> your program does this.

The context is persistant http connections. Tearing down the socket
and rebuilding it for each url would be dramatically slower.

Cheers,
Julian.