Scream, thank you for your post. Again you are a breath of fresh air to the unsubstantiated claims from others.
Allen you actually amaze me. I find it hard to believe that you actually read any of my posts because you clearly don't understand them. This is what you said:
>> I don't need to prove anything
Ok, so you think it is fair to make claims about software (does it matter where you make the claim?) which you can't back up?
>> decent software that's not as efficient as threads,
Under what criteria of efficiency? If it is just the raw number of queries then I am afraid this shows your ignorance and perhaps you should read up a bit on databases. Sure reducting the number of queries, other things being equal is a good plan but this does not mean a script with 10 queries will necessarily run faster than one with 20 queries. That is just an absurb statement to make. Efficiency of programs is based on a lot more than that. Or are you going to claim that the quality of the PHP coding is irrelevant as well?
And of course vbulletin is trying to cut down the number of queries, although I doubt it will be much less and more likely more in vb3 with new features but that is not yet known. But just because it has more queries (which has been accepted) does NOT mean it is less efficient. I am not sure how many other ways of putting what is really a very simple concept so that you can understand it.
>> have said several times now I welcome an independent third party to server load test them and prove me wrong - I think quite a few people will be surprised at the results
Yes, I would agree that this is what is needed and perhaps you should keep your subjective evaluations to yourself until you can proov them with an independant valuation. That is my only beef with you, that you make statements you can not backup.
Find an example that can compete with
www.disboards.com for example which only recently went to two servers. 1285 online max users, I don't often see it below 700 active and 1.7 million forum posts all on two servers. If you have something of equal size one one server then I might believe wwwthreads is more efficient then.
