At 11:26 AM 9/26/00 -0700, Dave Storrs wrote:
>On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> > What'd be a larger win would be if we have async I/O built into the core
> > ...
> > This is reasonably simple on Unices that support it, as well as on VMS and
> > Windows. Can't speak for other platforms, but I'm not hugely worried that
> > we won't get the win on, say, HP/UX 10.x or SunOS 4.x...
>
> Just a point of information: Windows 95/98 can NOT do asynch
>IO...I've just spent the last week researching this, and that fact is
>clearly and frequently scattered through the MSDN documentation. You can
>fake AIO by using an IO thread (which is generally worthless, given the
>lousy W95 thread model) or by doing manual timeslicing, but you can't get
>true AIO.
Bletch. Doesn't surprise me, but bletch. (All my (horribly limited)
experience under the hood is with NT)
Okay Win9x (and probably WinME) loses unless someone's willing to go to
heroic lengths. I can live with that... :)
Dan
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