Thanks for the thread id. Rick even said as much about InProcess servers in his pre VFP - 6 / pre MTDLL paper "foxisapi.htm". That paper seems to suggest that VFP servers might be a better option than ASP!
>It would be nice to hear from more of the experts since we seem to have divergent views among them. For example, we were both part of a thread a while back with Christof where he said:(message #
798250) "The biggest difference is resource usage in this case. An EXE solution needs more memory as the runtime is bigger and there's copy of the runtime for each EXE.
>I think the reasons to pick MTDLLS over EXEs shouldn't be performance considerations, rather stability, scalability, security, etc."
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>>Hi Rick,
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>>>Bottom line is this: VFP is not really multithreaded and in order to run multiple requests simultaneously it has to have more than a single copy of the runtime running.
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>>Huh, I didn't know that. I figured the threads somehow shared the same runtime, thereby allowing higher scalability. Do the threads/runtimes run in the same process, or is that separate as well?
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