On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > New and improved, my reentrant resolver patch even includes documentation! > What does it do, you ask? Why, it simply makes tabbed browsing in Mozilla > an order of magnitude faster! How does it do that, you ask? Well, it > simply makes h_errno and the getaddrinfo(3)/getipnodebyname(3) functions > thread-safe in a more intelligent way. There is still a global lock around > some pieces of data, but for the most part the global lock (which is what > serialized EVERY hostname lookup in threaded programs) is not contested. > It's still used for some NIS-related tasks, looking up hostents, and looking > up server port names, but that's not comparatively very important. The > resolver itself is a thread-safe backend where each thread gets its own > resolver that can run concurrently with the rest, so the time spent blocked > waiting for DNS responses is gone. > > Give it a try, and let me know how it works! > <URL:http://green.homeunix.org/~green/reentrant_resolver.patch> Ugh, can you put h_errno inside the per-thread res stuff. We shouldn't need to have to add special hooks in the threads libraries for this. -- Dan EischenReceived on Fri Feb 20 2004 - 15:07:32 UTC
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