[Python-ideas] The async API of the future

[Richard Oudkerk]

On 03/11/2012 9:22am, Sturla Molden wrote:
> No, it does something completely different. It registers a callback function for a single event object and waits. We were talking about multiplexing a wait for more than 64 objects.

By using an appropriate callback you easily implement something like 
WaitForMultipleObjects() which does not have the 64 handle limit 
(without having to explicitly start any threads).

More usefully if the callback posts a message to an IOCP then it lets 
you use the IOCP to wait on non-IO things.

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Richard