[Python-ideas] yield from multiple iterables (was Re: The async API of the future: yield-from)

[Eric V. Smith]

On 10/21/2012 8:23 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I don't see it that way. Any time you acquire a lock, you may be
> blocked for a long time. In a typical event loop that's an absolute
> no-no. Typically, to wait for another thread, you give the other
> thread a callback that adds a new event for *this* thread.
> 
> Now, it's possible that in Windows, when using IOCP, the philosophy is
> different -- I think I've read in
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365198%28VS.85%29.aspx that
> there can be multiple threads reading events from a single queue.

Correct. The typical usage of an IOCP is that you create as many threads
as you have CPUs (or cores, or execution units, or whatever the kids
call them these days), then they can all wait on the same IOCP. So if
you have, say 4 CPUs so 4 threads, they can all be woken up to do useful
work if the IOCP has work items for them.

-- 
Eric.