PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model

• Platform

  30 91 9.9 JavaScript

  Qbix Platform for powering Social Apps (http://qbix.com/platform) (by Qbix)

  

I hope they don't do it.

I've had a similar situation with PHP, where we had written quite a large engine (https://github.com/Qbix/Platform) with many features (https://qbix.com/features.pdf) . It took advantage of the fact that PHP isolated each script and gave it its own global variables, etc. In fact, much of the request handling did stuff like this:

  Q_Request::requireFields(['a', 'b', 'c']);

• MySQL

  146 10,244 9.8 C++

  MySQL Server, the world's most popular open source database, and MySQL Cluster, a real-time, open source transactional database.

  

Here's MySQL's all-session-globals-in-one-place-class: https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/blob/8.0/sql/sql_class...

I believe I can safely say that nobody acknowledges and understands the complexity of all state within that class, and that whatever incentives there may be to simplify it are not enough for that to actually happen.

(It ends on line 4692)

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• mirage

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  MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels

  

That was/is part of the promise of the whole unikernel thing, no?

https://mirage.io/ or similar could then let you boot your database. That said, it's not really taken off from what I can tell, so I'm guessing there's more to it than that.

• tinycc-multithreaded

  1 3 0.0 C

  a lock-free port of tinycc/libtcc

https://github.com/rsaxvc/tinycc-multithreaded

This is the multi-threaded compiler: https://github.com/rsaxvc/tcc-swarm

With the multi-threaded tcc above it scales about as well as multiprocess. With mainline it doesn't scale well at all.

So far I haven't gotten around to reusing anything across libtcc handles/instances, but would eventually like to share mmap()'d headers across instances, as well as cache include paths, and take invocation arguments through stdin one compilation unit per line.

• tcc-swarm

  1 0 10.0 C

  multithreaded TCC compiler

https://github.com/rsaxvc/tinycc-multithreaded

This is the multi-threaded compiler: https://github.com/rsaxvc/tcc-swarm

With the multi-threaded tcc above it scales about as well as multiprocess. With mainline it doesn't scale well at all.

So far I haven't gotten around to reusing anything across libtcc handles/instances, but would eventually like to share mmap()'d headers across instances, as well as cache include paths, and take invocation arguments through stdin one compilation unit per line.

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