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		aaronblohowiak on Nov 13, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: "Sequential programming is dead. So stop teaching ... "?????? so mongrel comes with its own OS kernel that has better support for multicore than linux and freebsd? wow!! coolzzz!" In fact, quite the opposite. Handling concurrency by having multiple share-nothing processes relies on the OS to handle the scheduling and core assignment. edit: "real" (system) processes.

crabapple on Nov 13, 2008 [–]

uh, yeah, i know that. i thought the "coolzzz" would relate my sarcasm

aaronblohowiak on Nov 14, 2008 | [–]

Your sarcasm implies that mongrel's scheduling and IPC was inferior to the OS, which is not the case.

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