Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Unfeasible? Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 00:40:13 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: <87zixpcmqa.fsf@nightsong.com> References: <87r3j3dlxc.fsf@nightsong.com> <313aca34-5010-4add-91ae-ca23920bc417@googlegroups.com> <87bna5eaux.fsf@nightsong.com> <864ac9a3-3712-4028-bbfa-fdfd20e2465d@googlegroups.com> <874mfxe2mz.fsf@nightsong.com> <9b9342ea-fbc0-43eb-a15e-8b398650e6d5@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="560a36ee31cc4bcf69e115b311f0cc5c"; logging-data="20113"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/xTXPfITmO5lOQ8DGoQUwt" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:io6LD+tJP4p2swpSIiW1SHrqG1c= sha1:ZDpAEHkRONcu0tQrmVCfGrFcUms= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:44079 Julian Fondren writes: > OK. Let it be a mystery. It's a pretty daft solution anyway; looking > back I found it more appealing for being lockless than for being fast. Yeah I think I figured it out, very clever, but I'd have to examine the kernel source to make sure it really works. > That's reasonable. There are long-running system services, though. > A typical PHP script, or a WordPress plugin, would keep the number > in the database. Ok, sure, if something like mysql is available that works too (slowly). Alternatively nginx with the lua module would be insanely fast.