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Re:Redis weekly update #6 - 2.2 and VM by liuliu on Friday July 09, 2010 @04:36PM (#1502130)
why Windows? Redis is a service over socket, thus, you can have a *nix box running Redis and talk to the box with your asp.net/c# I suppose. Windows has a very different socket model, I think that supporting Windows will scarify to much for Redis.
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Re:Redis weekly update #6 - 2.2 and VM by windmill on Friday July 09, 2010 @04:50PM (#1502176)
Windows has pretty the same socket model, from BSD. The difference is in the I/O event notification facility, for asynchronous network programming one would use "epoll" in Linux, "kqueue" in FreeBSD, they are conceptually pretty similar, while Windows has only the classic "select" and "poll", maybe something new windows-only thing (IOCP?) as well, but who cares.. Free Software rule.
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Re:Redis weekly update #6 - 2.2 and VM by liuliu on Friday July 09, 2010 @04:56PM (#1502192)
iocp and epoll is the difference I am talking about.
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