2015-01-13 16:24 GMT+01:00 Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <[email protected]>: > libuv (Node's platform layer) core dev here. That's right all filesystem > operations are run in a threadpool, much like asyncio runs getaddrinfo > in a ThreadPoolExecutor. > > Here is an interesting read: > http://blog.libtorrent.org/2012/10/asynchronous-disk-io/
Thanks for the link. I used the ThirdParty wiki page to keep these info: https://code.google.com/p/tulip/wiki/ThirdParty#Filesystem I don't understand the status on Windows when the ProactorEventLoop is used: are filesystem operation blocking or not? Latest discussion on the Linux kernel: http://lwn.net/Articles/612483/ Victor
