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From: Vadim Tkachenko <vt@freehold.crocodile.org>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 23:05:07 -0500
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
T. Alexander Popiel wrote:
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> You seem to assume that it is impossible for a single thread to keep
> even one I/O device continuously busy. Whatever happened to double-
> buffering and non-blocking I/O? Has that art actually been lost in
> the annals of time?
I could be wrong, but I wish it rest in piece - it was a performance
tuning nightmare. Either your I/O theread hogs all the resources looping
idle, waiting for the input, or it lags because of the wrong priority
set or bad timing.
For me, the blocking I/O and a possibility to interrupt it (exceptions)
is a blessing.
Comments, anyone?
> - Alex
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Vadim Tkachenko <vt@freehold.crocodile.org>
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