To make this happen, it seems like we would need an external that multithreads database queries and sends the query results back to LC as a new message. It would have to bring in a new ID for each request and return that ID with the result.
Can the ODBC external do that? Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 4, 2017, at 2:06 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > jonathandlynch wrote: > > > Hi Richard and Andre - thanks for your replies. I was the one who > > mentioned millions of users at the same time, not out of drunkenness > > but because I wanted to understand the upper limits of these systems. > > Scaling is a fascinating problem. I found the C10k problem a good starting > point (in recent years supplanted with C10m): > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10k_problem> > > > > I also found a thread discussing this idea from a few years ago that > > Richard was part of. It was very informative. > > I usually just quote Pierre or Andre, but once in a while my OCD habits with > benchmarking add something useful. :) > > > > I think an all-LC very fast server would be a great thing, but it > > sounds like just using node would be more realistic. I might fiddle > > a bit with this idea, just to satisfy my curiosity. > > Node.js is good where Node.js is needed. In some cases NginX is good. In > other cases Lighttpd is fine. And in many cases Apache is fine, even with > simple CGI. > > Most of us never need to think about C10m, or even C10k. If we do, that's a > wonderfully fortunate problem to have. Just having that problem makes it > much easier to get funding to solve it with specialists. Let the t-shirts > sort it out while the suits focus on strategy. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
