RE: Threads Fibers Events and Design Patterns

[John Plevyak]

If I was designing a new system right now I would use the half-async,
half-sync pattern.  If I was going to retrofit TS, I would use the
current system for the half-async part and add blocking sync interfaces
for the iocore and a transaction thread pool.  When TS was first
designed we considered user threads, but we knew we could get the event
driven system to work fast and portably, otherwise we might have gone
that route.  Knowing what I know now I am very glad we didn't.