Cool. Thanks. On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Marc Lehmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 08:10:07AM -0400, Aaron Boxer <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Would you be able to comment on how libeio compares to the asynch >> options discussed in this blog (rant) ?:) >> >> http://davmac.org/davpage/linux/async-io.html > > from quickly scanning that page, the author is deeply confused. > select/epoll/sigio are not for asynchronous I/O at all, and posix > asynchronous I/O (which is a complete failure) is not the same thing as > linux async I/O (which is not generally usable). > > libev corresponds to synchronous event driven non-blocking I/O, such as > using select/epoll, and libeio corresponds to POSIX asynchronous I/O. > > -- > The choice of a Deliantra, the free code+content MORPG > -----==- _GNU_ http://www.deliantra.net > ----==-- _ generation > ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann > --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [email protected] > -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ >
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