[Python-ideas] The async API of the future

[Sturla Molden]

Den 3. nov. 2012 kl. 12:20 skrev Richard Oudkerk <shibturn at gmail.com>:

> 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).
> 

But it uses a thread-pool that polls the registered wait objects, so the overhead (with respect to latency) will still be O(n). It does not matter if you ask Windows to allocate a thread-pool for the polling or if you do the polling yourself. It is still user-space threads that polls N objects with O(n) complexity. But if you nest WaitForMultipleObjects, you can get the latency down to O(log n). 

IOCP is just an abstraction for a thread-pool and a FIFO. If you want to use a thread-pool and a FIFO to wait for something else than I/O there are easier ways. For example, you can use the queue functions in NT6 and enqueue whatever APC you want – or just use a list of threads and a queue in Python.

Sturla



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