Re: [Cppcms-users] questions about chat example code

[Artyom B. <art...@ya...>]

Artyom Beilis
>  Since asynchronous applications run in main thread and
>  are event driven, shouldn't the word
> "simultaneously" be written as
> "sequentially" instead? Because asynchronous
> applications do not accept and process requests
> concurrently, requests must wait in line for processing.
>  Asynchronous applications run in main thread and thus
> can never handle multiple connections simultaneously. They
> handle one connection at a time.

No... Simultaneously does not mean multithreaded :-)

Async App can keep more than one open connection simultaneously
unlike the synchronous application.

like in a chat example, where the waiters_ is a set of multiple connections.
 
Artyom