Subj : Re: MT server side app book advice To : comp.programming.threads From : Sergei Organov Date : Tue May 24 2005 08:37 pm "Uenal Mutlu" <520001085531-0001@t-online.de> writes: > "dan" wrote > > Thanks for all the info! Think I'll buy a couple (Just wish they weren't > > all so expensive!) > > "Mikhail Polatov" wrote in message > > > "dan" writes: > > > > > >> Can anyone recommend any books regarding developing mutlithreaded > > >> server side applications for Windows XP server or linux. > > > > > > I'd start with Programming with POSIX(R) Threads by David R. Butenhof > > > (ISBN: 0201633922). > > I have not read his book, but I've participated in some discussions with > the author in this newsgroup, and I'm afraid his views on thread programming > are not uptodate, some may even say old- or odd-style. The fact that you didn't care to understand (or just lack the brain power to) what exactly he is saying makes his writing neither old- nor odd-style, sorry. Besides, being born in USSR, I still remember those unfortunate for many authors old days that your phrase "I have not read his book, but..." immediately reminded. The rest of the phrase was usually something like "..., but I condemn what he wrote." > He is practically saying that multithreading on a single CPU would not > make any sense. He didn't say it. > He's saying one would need one CPU per thread. He didn't say it. > When I asked him how he would serve 1000 simultanous clients, ie. > whether he would use a server with 1000 CPU's to do the job, he > unfortunately refused to answer. As he didn't say what you believe he said, your question just didn't make any sense, so I'm not surprised you've got no answer. Besides, you don't seem to respect any answers that don't match your own opinion, so why bother to answer? -- Sergei. .