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		jwatte on Jan 6, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Select(2) is fundamentally broken You should never, ever, create one thread per socket. The choice is between select, polled IO, or events. Sadly, UNIX doesn't have a good unified asynchronous IO model, like OVERLAPPED and IOCP on NT.

snnn on Jan 7, 2017 [–]

> You should never, ever, create one thread per socket

Really? that's how MySQL works.

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