>>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 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.
DS> Bletch. Doesn't surprise me, but bletch. (All my (horribly limited)
DS> experience under the hood is with NT)
DS> Okay Win9x (and probably WinME) loses unless someone's willing to go to
DS> heroic lengths. I can live with that... :)
i want to see async I/O supportd as well. see my forthcoming event loop
rfc and the AIO (advanced I/O) one. hopefully to be done before the
deadline. i see async i/o as just another event type like readable
sockets or timers. if the OS supports it we will use it, otherwise we
will act like it exists.
dan has proposed using async i/o under the hood for regular i/o and i
think that is something that is worth doing but it is more an invisible
speedup than a language feature.
uri
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