comp.lang.ruby

Robert Klemme

2/4/2005 6:52:00 PM

"Daniel Berger" <djberg96@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1107382523.162768.105890@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all,
>
> Are there any plans to add support for the POSIX functions aio_read,
> aio_write, aio_waitn and aio_cancel to the Ruby standard library?
>
> I thought perhaps an AIO (or perhaps NIO, ala Java) class would be
> worthwhile. That or add methods to the existing IO class.
>
> Or is there no point in doing that? Does io-reactor (RAA) already more
> or less accomplish the same goal?

My 0.02 EUR: I prefer to use threads for concurrent IO because that makes up
for much simpler code. Note also, that Ruby internally already uses
nonblocking IO.

Kind regards

robert