Efficiently accepting TCP connections

[Joe Armstrong (AL/EAB)]

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> Sent: den 12 maj 2005 16:22
> To: joel reymont
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> Subject: Re: Efficiently accepting TCP connections
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> joel reymont wrote:
> > Is there an efficient idiom for handling gen_tcp 
> connections on the server side?


Yes I always use

http://www.sics.se/~joe/tutorials/web_server/tcp_server.erl

To see how it's used read

http://www.sics.se/~joe/tutorials/web_server/web_server.html

I have used this simple bit of code many many times for building web servers
rpc servers, telnet servers etc.

/Joe


> One possibility is to use thread pools. The "leader-follower" 
> object-oriented design pattern by Doug Schmidt et al. has 
> been proposed 
> for this purpose.
> 
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