On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 13:58, Vishakha Vaidya <vvaidya_at_adobe.com> wrote:
> I use easy interface in a threaded model and am considering a move to multi handles again using a thread model. I prototyped the two but don't see a gain in performance in terms of time taken, is that expected ?

Performance isn't quite the same thing as scalability. You'll be able
to process many more simultaneous requests with the multi interface
because a pollset has a much lower resource footprint than a thread
pool.

This probably matters less for clients than for servers; clients don't
often have to handle hundreds of concurrent requests.

> One advantage I could think of is that since there is simultaneous transfer happening and they're non blocking, I can cancel transfer of selected files from the job queue rather than having to abort the entire operation. Am I thinking on the right lines ?

Yes, you are.

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