1 The State Threads Library is a small application library which
2 provides a foundation for writing fast and highly scalable Internet
3 applications (such as web servers, proxy servers, mail transfer
4 agents, and so on, really any network-data-driven application) on
5 UNIX-like platforms. It combines the simplicity of the multithreaded
6 programming paradigm, in which one thread supports each simultaneous
7 connection, with the performance and scalability of an event-driven
8 state machine architecture. In other words, this library offers a
9 threading API for structuring an Internet application as a state