[web-devel] Caching the System time

[Michael Snoyman]

Did you mean IORef (Data.Sequence.Seq String)? I'm wondering if a Chan
might be even better than that.

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Max Cantor <mxcantor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just curious, but might it be faster to:
>
> replace the MVar handle with an IORef [Data.Sequence.Seq String]
> logs are appended with atomicModifyIORef
> then every n seconds, a worker thread uses atomicModifyIORef to clear the sequence and write the log messages to a handle?
>
> this way, logging a message doesn't require taking an mvar
>
> I have no idea if this is better, just thought i'd throw it out.
>
> On Aug 10, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) wrote:
>
>>  Every user-thread of Mighttpd records a log message with Handle.
>>  Since Handle is protected with MVar, serialization is done. Multiple
>>  log messages are buffered in the buffer of Handle to reduce the
>>  number of the write system call. Moreover, I re-implemented hPut to
>>  reduce unnecessary intermediate data to compose a log message.
>
>
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