[Python-Dev] generic async io (was: microthreading vs. async io) (original) (raw)

dustin at v.igoro.us dustin at v.igoro.us
Sat Feb 17 17:29:09 CET 2007


On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 01:28:01PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:

Nick Maclaren wrote:

> Threading > --------- > > An I/O operation passes a buffer, length, file and action and receives a > token back. You seem to be using the word "threading" in a completely different way than usual here, which may be causing some confusion.

According to subsequent clarification, the kind of IO Nick is talking about is the sort of thing described recently on kerneltrap: http://kerneltrap.org/node/7728 (although he was referring specifically to POSIX async IO)

Dustin



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