Re: Announce : POEx::HTTP::Server

On 22 Dec 2010, at 14:48, Philip Gwyn wrote:

> 
> On 20-Dec-2010 Andy Jenkinson wrote:
>> Hi Philip
>> 
>> This sounds really good, and very feature-rich (especially prefork and easy
>> streaming). Can you say a bit more about how the concurrency works? I assume
>> it's not doing anything clever with threads, and calls to the handlers are
>> blocking?
> 
> Concurrency is of the simplistic kind; pause_select() and read_select() on the
> SocketFactory.
> 
> Yes, if a handler blocks, all other requests block.  POE is
> cooperative multitasking; use the preforking if your handlers aren't
> cooperating.

OK thanks Philip, indeed, preforking is how I do it at the moment as my server has to rely on third party code in the handlers.

> -Philip