Subj : Re: threaded application scalability question To : comp.programming.threads From : David Schwartz Date : Wed Feb 16 2005 12:16 pm "Luke Ehresman" wrote in message news:1108572545.643560.282600@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > Why would I not want to do this? That is my question. :) It keeps me > from having to do any locking at all. I essentially treat each session > as its own single-threaded application. There would be no sharing of > data between threads. It seems a more elegant solution than messing > with lots and lots of locking. My biggest concern is scalability. You would have the exact same situation if you used a thread pool and only queued one job for a connection at a time. It's not at all elegant. DS .