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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>> The reason we can't ignore IOCP is that it is apparently the *only*
>> way to do async I/O in a scalable way. The only other polling
>> primitive available is select() which does not scale.
>
>
> There seems to be an alternative to polling, though. There are
> functions called ReadFileEx and WriteFileEx that allow you to
> pass in a routine to be called when the operation completes:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365468%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365748%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>
> Is there some reason that this doesn't scale either?

I don't know, we've reached territory I don't know at all. Are there
also similar calls for Accept() and Connect() on sockets? Those seem
the other major blocking primitives that are frequently used.

FWIW, here is where I read about IOCP being the only scalable way on
Windows: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/01/libevent-20x-like-libevent-14x-only.html

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)