Advantages of a large number of threads cf other approaches?

[Samuel Tardieu]

>>>>> "Jonathan" == jonathan  <jonathan@REDACTED> writes:

> * Internet servers - why not use asynchronous sockets running in a
> single thread?

Because you also need asynchronous file reading. If a file takes N ms
to load, then you will be blocking all the incoming requests. You will
end up implementing a scheduler by yourself, which is much more easily
achieved by using Erlang processes.

The situation is even worse if some of your requests need to access
external resources such as a database.

> * Simulations - why use an object per thread rather than a "classic"
> OO approach?

Same reason.

  Sam
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