> It is all much better explained here why blocking is better: > http://www.ararat.cz/synapse/doku.php/about
I would not say that blocking is "better". Programming with synchronous functions needs less callbacks and thus gives more compact code at the cost of performance. If this is OK depends on the requirements of your application. That said I think that the real question should be: "Why doesn't Delphi improve support for asynchronous programming?" because there are other programming languages that allow you to write asynchronous code without explicit callbacks by supporting coroutines (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutine). "Vala" is my current favourite language in that direction, all you have to do there is to add a "yield" in front of calling asynchronous functions and the compiler takes care of the rest (callback, state machine). Code examples: http://live.gnome.org/Vala/GIOSamples#Asynchronous_Stream_Reading http://live.gnome.org/Vala/GIONetworkingSample#line-156 How I wish there would be a "yield" keyword in Delphi... Regards, Tobias -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
