State Threads
| Developer(s) | Gene Shekhtman, Mike Abbott |
|---|---|
| Stable release |
1.9
/ October 2, 2009 |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Library |
| License | MPL / GPL |
| Website | state-threads.sf.net |
The State Threads library 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, or any network-data-driven application) on Unix-like platforms.
This library 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) and therefore is distributed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) version 1.1 or the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.