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<LI><em>From</em>: Ben Greear &lt;<A HREF="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</A>&gt;</LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 21:49:48 -0700 (MST)</LI>
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On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Vadim Tkachenko wrote:

&gt; T. Alexander Popiel wrote:
&gt; 
&gt; [skipped]
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&gt; &gt; You seem to assume that it is impossible for a single thread to keep
&gt; &gt; even one I/O device continuously busy.  Whatever happened to double-
&gt; &gt; buffering and non-blocking I/O?  Has that art actually been lost in
&gt; &gt; the annals of time?
&gt; 
&gt; I could be wrong, but I wish it rest in piece - it was a performance
&gt; tuning nightmare. Either your I/O theread hogs all the resources looping
&gt; idle, waiting for the input, or it lags because of the wrong priority
&gt; set or bad timing.
&gt; 
&gt; For me, the blocking I/O and a possibility to interrupt it (exceptions)
&gt; is a blessing.
&gt; 
&gt; Comments, anyone?

It'll be a cold day in Hell when I thread a c++ program, and so I dearly
love my non-blocking IO.  I see few multi-processor machines in my
immediate future, and even so, will probably opt to 'thread' at
the process level, think server-clustering or something :)

Ben

&gt; 
&gt; &gt; - Alex
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&gt; -- 
&gt; Still alive and smile stays on,
&gt; Vadim Tkachenko &lt;vt#freehold,crocodile.org&gt;
&gt; --
&gt; UNIX _is_ user friendly, he's just very picky about who his friends are
&gt; 
&gt; -- 
&gt; MUD-Dev: Advancing an unrealised future.
&gt; 


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<LI><strong><A NAME="00586" HREF="msg00586.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: lurker emerges</A></strong>, 
Adam J. Thornton <a href="mailto:adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU">adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU</a>, Sun 09 Aug 1998, 17:28 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00593" HREF="msg00593.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: lurker emerges</A></strong>, 
Petri Virkkula <a href="mailto:pvirkkul#iki,fi">pvirkkul#iki,fi</a>, Sun 09 Aug 1998, 19:43 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00599" HREF="msg00599.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: lurker emerges</A></strong>, 
T. Alexander Popiel <a href="mailto:popiel#snugharbor,com">popiel#snugharbor,com</a>, Sun 09 Aug 1998, 22:36 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00607" HREF="msg00607.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: lurker emerges</A></strong>, 
Vadim Tkachenko <a href="mailto:vt#freehold,crocodile.org">vt#freehold,crocodile.org</a>, Mon 10 Aug 1998, 04:05 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00609" HREF="msg00609.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: lurker emerges</A></strong>, 
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Mon 10 Aug 1998, 04:54 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01053" HREF="msg01053.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: lurker emerges</A></strong>, 
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Thu 17 Sep 1998, 00:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00610" HREF="msg00610.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: lurker emerges</A></strong>, 
T. Alexander Popiel <a href="mailto:popiel#snugharbor,com">popiel#snugharbor,com</a>, Mon 10 Aug 1998, 05:05 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00611" HREF="msg00611.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: lurker emerges</A></strong>, 
Vadim Tkachenko <a href="mailto:vt#freehold,crocodile.org">vt#freehold,crocodile.org</a>, Mon 10 Aug 1998, 05:23 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00632" HREF="msg00632.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: lurker emerges</A></strong>, 
T. Alexander Popiel <a href="mailto:popiel#snugharbor,com">popiel#snugharbor,com</a>, Mon 10 Aug 1998, 15:29 GMT
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