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		anewvillager on June 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rethinking of CGI as a selfhosted lambda server It scales if you let userland do thread scheduling (instead of having green threads on top of OS threads) Something like https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/us... See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6726357

josephcsible on June 1, 2020 [–]

I'm not sure how threading is relevant. CGI inherently requires a new process per request, regardless of any choices you may make about threading.

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