Re: Continuations

[Paul Graham <address@hidden>]

We had multiple servers.  (Yahoo Store now has over 100.)
We just had users talk to a single server for the duration
of their login session.  --pg

--Evan Martin wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 20:21, Paul Graham wrote:
> > I argued this in my dissertation, but now I think I was wrong.
> > They're extremely useful for overcoming the statelessness of
> > CGI scripts.  See 
> > 
> > http://lib1.store.vip.sc5.yahoo.com/lib/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt
> 
> I've read of other people doing similar things, and I think it's very
> cool, but I wondered:
> How can this scale to a large website, such as one with multiple
> independent web servers?
> 
> -- 
> Evan Martin
> martine@danga.com
> http://neugierig.org
>