-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 20/10/10 00:58, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
It would be nice to know about the use case Jesus has in mind.
I am thinking about the cases where a request come, you do some disk read in behalf of it and you reply. If the read is "slow" (if not cached, you have to deal with a physical harddisk), you stop the main-loop for a while, unless you use threads. If, instead, I can schedule a read and keep processing other requests (possibly queueing new reads), be notified when the read is done and complete the reply, I think this is more simple and performing (and far less memory hungry) that using threads. I just opened a issue, assigned to me. I plan to do the implementation myself, at least for Solaris and possibly (recent) Linux: <http://bugs.python.o rg/issue11117>. Some people say AIO OS implementations are flaky. Well, you must deal with it, like you deal with other flaky OS corners, like exhausting memory or whatever. I would suppose that if Python exposes AIO and in some OS support is underpar, the exposing would incentivate a better support for OS. Like happened to threads and linux years ago. - -- Jesus Cea Avion _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ jcea@jcea.es - http://www.jcea.es/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ jabber / xmpp:jcea@jabber.org _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ . _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQCVAwUBTUwbeZlgi5GaxT1NAQK4uwP+J3PwGY1dvBi+OyBo9M9UWsma0khgzdUS 6ewHhCrCK+U5HK0e/g9cLbesBSsYvVfNjPe+fb9cQuwMBK0lpF3kOzfsEf82RIxR NlsqOba31CE1tW9uS4wja0TddFDob3IImqgwSB7NptBOZTNVjDvB6k0V7KHqvPWX 9g01GqaQ9uQ= =hx6M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----