[OKS] Async IO

Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Mon, 1 Jul 2002 14:08:32 -0400 (EDT)


Sounds like the right way to go. I always thought blocking i/o was for the
benefit of the o/s, but with read-ahead and buffered writes the gain will
be essentially invisible for many things. I admit that the first
development team I ever joined used async io for everything, writing a new
o/s for GE, then in the mainframe business, so I may not be neutral;-)

This has been less of an issue with low cost process creation, several
processes using IPC and blocking io are probably no harder to get right
than a bunch of async io, but this is a good time to add the capability.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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