On: Scaling MongoDB at Mailbox

[jessaustin]

1. That's not what I said.

2. I'm sure the Mongo devs would accept pull requests for mongodump.

[leif → jessaustin]

1. > it would be a PITA to write an asynchronous utility in C++

2. Doubt it, and there's no reason for me to write one for them.

[jessaustin → leif]

Asynchronous ≠ multithreaded. TFA actually tried both ways, measured the difference, and found async to be much faster.