Thread Pools in Nginx Boost Performance 9x (2015)

Post by srean » Fri, Aug 18, 2017, 5:17 AM UTC

nemanjaboric wrote: post #59

srean wrote: post #53

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A slightly off-topic question tinged with a touch of envy that you get to work on D. Many HN readers are apprehensive of the use of D because it is garbage collected and conjecture that it is not appropriate for low latency and/or high throughput work loads. Correct me if I am wrong, but that is exactly the kind of load the sociomantic needs to address. I have thoroughly enjoyed the relevant Dconf videos but it would…

Oh, I'm aware this is a late reply, but it's better than nothing. Yes, what you describe is exactly the kind of load we're addressing, and we're not getting GC to be in the way, simply by making usage of the reusable memory buffers, which are allocated in the first few requests, and then always reuse/recycled & fetched from the pool, so that we're not giving a chance for GC to kick in (as explained in the great blog…