ntpd: program structure

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> > Good to know.  Yeah, NTP at that volume is sure not going to saturate even a
> > smartphone, let alone anything you'd put in a desktop or server case. 
> 
> I can get 20k pkt/s through a Pi 3.

So, to a reasonable first approximation, a RasPi 3 could handle PTB's
load with 50% headroom.  That's...hilarious. I mean, does anyone doubt that
NTP's load is dominated by network stalls? ... No? ... I didn't think so.

This is actually reassuring in another way as well. With that much
headroom there is no way a Go port is going to hit performance issues
that C code wouldn't.
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