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Async I/O

Async I/O

Posted Nov 29, 2010 11:05 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Async I/O by kleptog
Parent article: Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs

> Yes, you can emulate it with threads, but they have their own baggage.

That's an understatement

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/220752/what-is-the-c-m...
http://blogs.sun.com/dave/entry/parallelism_manifesto

etc.


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