[Libevent-users] http: libevent vs many threads

[Springande Ulv]

On 19. april. 2008, at 01.57, William Ahern wrote:
> In some sense--like code complexity--using both an event-oriented  
> design
> *and* threads is the worst of both worlds. Your processing logic is  
> turned
> inside-out (state machines, etc, can be confusing to some people),  
> plus you
> have mutexes and barriers and all that crap littered throughout your  
> code.

He he, the crack you just heard is the thin ice you walked out on.

> Premature optimization is the root of all evil....

Oh that is an old misunderstood meme. What Hoare actually said was "We  
should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time:  
premature optimization is the root of all evil." He was talking about  
micro-optimizing code. Not exactly what I would call thinking about a  
scalable program design, which one should think about from the start  
and at all time, unless you work in the Microsoft Office team.