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I have to ask, is there even a practical purpose for this? Is there even some remote screwball application for having to have one machine handle 1,000,000 requests? One of the things I like about coming to HN is that the items on the front page are often actionable pieces of advice or clever and interesting hacks. I don't feel that "$LANG can do $LARGE_NUMBER of things" fits the bill. For example:

  C - Handling 1 Million Concurrent Connections 
  Java - Handling 1 Million Concurrent Connections 
  Javascript - Handling 1 Million Concurrent Connections 
  Go - Handling 1 Million Concurrent Connections

If it was 10^10 connections, now we are talking about some clever hacks to get that to work.

parent afhof 13 years ago

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