ahhh I got my sockets vs http requests confusled too On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Tom Glod <t...@makeshyft.com> wrote:
> I'm relieved to hear that.... I think I misunderstood Todd's blog... maybe > his was a purely volume related bottleneck and not the library he was using. > > Thanks for answering Monte. > > https://livecode.com/async-data-transfer-in-livecode-problem-and-solution/ > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 8:46 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> >> > On 16 Jun 2017, at 10:26 am, Tom Glod via use-livecode < >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> > >> > I'm an open-source user and I am building socket communications for my >> > application. >> > >> > I'm aware of the built in internet library and the tsNet library >> available >> > to non-open source license owners. >> > >> > My question is "What isn't asyncronious about reading from and writing >> to >> > sockets?” >> >> Nothing really as long as you use the callback (with message) form then >> all the reading and writing is done on a separate thread. Of course your >> callback handler is handled on the main engine thread but that’s not the >> slow part so that’s fine. >> >> tsNet does not provide sockets so that and its licensing probably only >> confuses any discussion of asynchronous sockets. >> >> Cheers >> >> Monte >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
