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touche! Not for external use though...

Java sadly doesn't have a decent non blocking dns resolution system :( On a restart, Mibbit needs to do a few thousand DNS lookups... and quick. I can only stand a thread pool so long.



> ...Java...

Well there's your problem! :P


sigh

Yeah. Handling 1000+ http requests a second on a single 1.4GB VPS is lame isn't it.

Java rocks. But it's not for beginners.




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