[Python-ideas] The async API of the future: Reactors

[Mark Adam]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Mike Graham <mikegraham at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Mark Adam <dreamingforward at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  there are three desires:
>>  {"cross-platform (OS) portability", "speed", "unified API"},
>> but you can only pick two.
>
> There are many tradeoffs where this is the case, but this isn't one of
> them. There are several systems that prove otherwise.

...several **systems**?  i mean, you can accomplish such a task on a
*particular* O.S. but I don't know where this is the case across
*several* systems (Unix, Mac, and Windows).  I would like to know of
an example, if you have one?

mark