OTOH we are not talking about a new kid on the block. We are
talking about the Apache (the web server) people, which are VERY
performance sensitive and are doing multiplatform server code for
many years already.

Considering this, you may even be right but I would value much
more your opinion after you actually looked at the library.

Besides, the case you mention is an extreme one. Even if one
might have to go native on some such cases, the APR covers and
simplifies much, much more.


Regards,
Paulo Gaspar

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Starkey [mailto:jas@...]
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 6:11 PM
> To: IB-Architect@yahoogroups.com; IB-Architect@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [IB-Architect] Apache's cross platform libraries
>
>
> At 06:04 PM 4/28/02 +0200, Paulo Gaspar wrote:
> >Also on the cross platform issue...
> >
> >This library represents years of cross platform (web) server
> >coding know-how and it is used for the new Apache 2.0 that
> >recently reached final status (after a really long beta):
> > http://apr.apache.org/
> >
> >The APR also supports very well threading even under Windows.
> >
>
> I would advise against adoption of any "portable runtime". A
> database must take advantage of whatever glue an operation
> system offers. Each operating system, by and large, offers
> or a more or less coherent set of services. Any portability
> API must mask the differences, imposing a common subset, and
> blocking the platform specific goodies.
>
> A case in point is data structure locking in a multi-threaded
> environment. Both NT and Linux offer mutexes (aka critical regions).
> Neither has a reasonable multi-state (i.e. shared/exclusive)
> locking mechanism, so it is necessary to build one from whatever
> services are available. The pthread semantics for waking up
> a thread are badly thought out (impossible to wake up a specific
> thread), while the NT semantics are quite civilized. If a
> system restricts itself to common semantics, it's hard to end
> up with anything acceptable on either Linux or NT, let alone
> optimal for each.
>
>
>
> Jim Starkey
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