Rewrite all the prefork MPM modules that Apache scripters love... to true multi-threaded mod_php_multithread module ...start with PHP http://www.faqs.org/docs/apache-compile/php.html
Some bench marks on supposedly 'lightning quick PHP request/response roundtrip' are located here http://www.gnegg.ch/archives/305-mod_php,-LightTPD,-FastCGI-Whats-fastest.ht ml Then again light at the end of the tunnel.. Caucho Servlet runs in a Resin container and has a PHP interpreter and is multithreaded out of the box.. Another fun project for C++ or Java is a Instant Messenger program put in a bunch of socket calls from Client1 to Server1 and have Server1 respond back to Client1 this is fairly easy and no more than 2 week fun project.. M-- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Atherton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <dev@ant.apache.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 8:29 PM Subject: Re: OT: C projects for students? > Subversion is a good project to start with, I think, for a couple of > reasons. > > First, it has a considerable amount of documentation for new people > starting out to learn the ropes. See > http://subversion.tigris.org/hacking.html in particular. > > Second, it has a lively community with a well-developed culture (see > http://producingoss.com/ to get an idea of how that came about) that can > help new contributors find their way. In fact, if patches are considered > for acceptance they are sure to get a thorough review and commentary > back from the members of the community, which can be extremely helpful > for students to learn how to do things. It is very rare for any patch to > be accepted into the code base without having gone back and forth a few > times. > > Third, the code is very well architected, particularly for a C project. > Great care has been taken, partly through using APR and APR-UTIL, to > follow rules that govern where resources are allocated and opened, and > how they are then cleaned up. C coders could do far worse than to > imitate the Subversion style of coding. > > Finally, Subversion maintains a list of what they call "bite-sized > tasks". Items from this list would probably be ideal for students to > work on as they don't require complete understanding of the rest of the > code base. The list of bite-sized tasks is here: > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/buglist.cgi?component=subversion&issue_s tatus=UNCONFIRMED&issue_status=NEW&issue_status=STARTED&issue_status=REOPENE D&keywords=bite-sized&cmdtype=doit > > You don't say what level of previous understanding of C your students > would have. It is pretty ambitious to think that they could contribute > anything during an introductory course, so I assume they are already > reasonable competent in coding C. In fact, I think that learning how to > effectively contribute to an open-source project should itself be a > course, independent of language. > > Kevin Jackson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is totally not Ant related (although it's slightly Apache > > related). If you're not interested sorry to waste your time. > > > > I'm teaching C to university students this semester and I'd like to > > set them some practical work to actually implement bugfixes and > > provide patches to open source projects. > > > > Unfortunately I'm not really aware of many open source projects that > > are C (not C++) and that have a decent infrastructure setup for > > receiving patches from novices. > > > > One thing I'm considering is the linux kernel janitors project, but > > I'm very wary of pushing that idea as I think it may be too ambitious. > > > > Do any of the developers here know of any projects that wouldn't mind > > junior-level developers submitting patches? I was thinking about APR, > > but again it's a bit too abstract for the students to be interested in > > :( > > > > Anyway thanks for your time, > > Kev > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
