[hunchentoot-devel] Re: Current development

[Robert Synnott]

2008/6/14 Bob Hutchison <hutch-lists at recursive.ca>:
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>
> I didn't really take this too seriously until someone managed to comfortably
> handle many thousands (20000??) concurrent comet connections (the article
> went through what was done to achieve this number). It was nicely documented
> in an article, that, naturally, I can't find at the moment. I think this
> article might talking about the same thing, but it is certainly talking of
> 20000 connections, but it is mostly just reporting it:
>
> <http://cometdaily.com/2008/01/07/20000-reasons-that-comet-scales/>.
>...

I think I've seen this; if it's the same article, it was done in
Erlang, using that language's lightweight processes. As such, it's not
using quite the same techniques that any Hunchentoot implementation
would.
Rob