Status of side-effecting functions in python
Marko Rauhamaa
marko at pacujo.net
Tue Oct 28 05:07:14 EDT 2014
Nobody <nobody at nowhere.invalid>:
> Asynchronous I/O in the sense of select(), poll(), O_NONBLOCK etc is
> meant for situations where delays could be indefinite, e.g. network
> connections or terminals. For "short" delays (i.e. disc access),
> there's not much point having a mechanism so that you can avoid
> blocking while the data is read from disc just so that you can block
> while the code in the "else" branch is read from disc.
I disagree with the "shortness" of the delays.
> If you want the program to be able to do something else while waiting
> for I/O, use threads. The introduction of threads made most
> concurrency- related issues in the POSIX API moot.
I disagree about that point of view as well. If files played ball with
select() et al, the linux world would be a better, more coherent place.
For example, looking at Python3's asyncio, I don't want to go out of the
asyncio model just because of disk (or DB) access.
Marko
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