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		kingkongrevenge on Sept 11, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tornado: FriendFeed's non-blocking Python web serv... I don't think threads are slower or less scalable anymore. The OS threading systems have improved a lot over the last four years.

Tichy on Sept 11, 2009 [–]

At least if you use a language like Erlang, I suppose. (Although I think that wouldn't be OS threading, but still).

extension on Sept 11, 2009 | [–]

Erlang threads (processes actually), are very different from OS threads. They are extremely lightweight and allow you to do this kind of event driven networking with threaded code.

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