[Python-Dev] Slides from today's parallel/async Python talk (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Mar 15 14:09:49 CET 2013

Am 15.03.13 00:19, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:

Does Microsoft change their recommendations every couple of years? :)

Indeed they do. In fact, it's not really the recommendation that changes, but APIs that are added to new Windows releases. In the specific case, Windows 8 adds an API called "Registered IO" (RIO). They (of course) do these API addition in expecting some gain, and then they (of course) promote these new APIs as actually achieving the gain.

In the socket APIs, the Unix world went through a similar evolution, with select, poll, epoll, kqueue, and whatnot.

The rate at which they change async APIs is actually low, compared to the rate at which they change relational-database APIs (ODBC, ADO, OLEDB, DAO, ADO.NET, LINQ, ... :-)

Regards, Martin

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