ntpd: program structure

[Eric S. Raymond]

Achim Gratz via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> > Anyway, I think that thinking about them as separate parts will help our 
> > discussions.
> > We should be able to improve performance on busy servers.
> 
> It's been decades since I looked at an NTP server that has enough
> clients to make me wonder about performance, so I'd like to see actual
> numbers for a busy NTP pool server w/ a fast connection for a baseline.

I concur.  I would need to see actual measurements before I've convinced that
ntpd with even a thosand client connections is a performance-degrading load.
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