On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, vick wrote:

> suppose i want to do async i/o with pooled threads. i create as many threads
> as there are processors. Basically would like curl multi to take advantage
> of multiple processors and complete operations on each of them. but as curl
> is not thread aware, wondering how that is possible.

Make one multi handle for each CPU and run the multi_socket API on each and
you'll get maximum performance. I think.

> This is for high performance apps though i recognize that libcurl is mainly
> a gooi-ish thing.

Sorry, I fail to see how libcurl is in anyway related to "gooi-ish" (assuming
you refer to GUI).

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