Async sockets or select() with threads?

Evil Steve · 2005-03-04T12:18:11

Hey all, this is for a MUD, and I know that this doesn't really matter one way or the other. However, what do you think would be more efficient, using async sockets, or running several threads, with each thread select()ing on 64 sockets (or whatever the maximum select() can handle is)? Async sockets are supposed to be more efficient, but I can't help but think that if I have a few hundred clients connected, then I'll be getting a crapload of messages in my callback function. At least with threads and blocking sockets the congestion is spread out over several threads. I'm not at all concerned with portability, this'll be running on a Win2k server, and I'd like to support up to 500 simultanious connections. Cheers, Steve