[Python-ideas] An alternate approach to async IO

[Trent Nelson]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 01:16:54AM -0800, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Le Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:18:19 -0500,
> Trent Nelson <trent at snakebite.org> a écrit :
> > > 
> > > That api is fairly similar to what is in the proactor branch of
> > > tulip where you can write
> > > 
> > >      for event in proactor.poll(timeout):
> > >          # process event
> > > 
> > > But why use a use a thread pool just to take items from one thread
> > > safe (FIFO) queue and put them onto another thread safe (LIFO)
> > > queue?
> > 
> >     I'm not sure how "thread pool" got all the focus suddenly.  That's
> >     just an implementation detail.  The key thing I'm proposing is
> > that we reduce the time involved in processing incoming IO requests.
> 
> At this point, I propose you start writing some code and come back with
> benchmark numbers, before claiming that your proposal improves
> performance at all.

    That's the plan.  (Going to put aside a few hours each day to work
    on it.)  So, watch this space, I guess.

        Trent.