[MUD-Dev] Re: lurker emerges

[Vadim Tkachenko]

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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