[Python-ideas] The async API of the future

[Nick Coghlan]

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla at molden.no> wrote:
> The root allows us to wait for 64 objects, the first branch allows us to wait for 4096, and the second 262144...
>
> For example, if 4096 wait objects are enough, we can use a pool of 64 threads. Each thread calls WaitForMultipleObjects on up to 64 wait objects, and signals to the master when it wakes up.

Given that the purposes of using async IO is to improve scalability on
a single machine by a factor of 100 or more beyond what is typically
possible with threads or processes, hard capping the scaling
improvement on Windows at 64x the thread limit by relying on
WaitForMultipleObjects seems to be rather missing the point.

Cheers,
Nick.

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