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diff --git a/devel/st/pkg-descr b/devel/st/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 0000000..04bd5a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/st/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +The State Threads is a small application library which provides a +foundation for writing fast and highly scalable Internet applications +(such as web servers, proxy servers, mail transfer agents, and so on) on +UNIX-like platforms. It combines the simplicity of the multithreaded +programming paradigm, in which one thread supports each simultaneous +connection, with the performance and scalability of an event-driven +state machine architecture. In other words, this library offers a +threading API for structuring an Internet application as a state +machine. + +The State Threads library is a derivative of the Netscape Portable +Runtime library (NSPR). + +WWW: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/state-threads/ + +- Anton +tobez@tobez.org |
