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[Aaron Bentley]

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David Allouche wrote:
| On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 09:24 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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|>Yes.  I've done some thinking about this for Arch, and what I'd like is
|>an interface where "get" produces file-like objects.  Each file-like
|>object is will asynchonously download.  If there is not enough data to
|>satisfy the read() request, we do select(), and buffer data for other
|>get requests, until select() says there's data for the file we're
|>actually interested in.  Lather, rinse, repeat.
|
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| That looks like it stems from the process handling discussion we had
| about pybaz. I think that is hackish.

Basically, I think asychronous I/O sucks.  It's necessary for
performance, but a pain in the ass to deal with.  This was an attempt to
provide the minimum intrusion of asynchonicity, and letting most of the
program treat the I/O as synchonous.

| If the point is doing efficient asynchronous networking, which it
| appears to be, why not do it properly, and use Twisted?

Because people I respect have told me Twisted is crack.  Didn't you tell
me that?

I also don't like the idea of having to rewrite a program to fit a
framework, which my uninformed impression of Twisted.

Aaron
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