Re:Memory efficiency of parallel IO operations in Python
by ben0x539 on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @04:21PM
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I don't think that's such an unpopular opinion. At least I think I'm mostly on board. :)
I don't really want to write callback-driven code anywhere, but even for simple definitely-not-thousands-of-concurrent-connections kinda problems, the typical language's standard library operation of "do this one thing and wait indefinitely until it's done" gets fairly annoying, working around it with threads is also annoying, and I'm just kinda hoping that the people working on making the async IO user experience better will accidentally make my life easier as well.
I don't really want to write callback-driven code anywhere, but even for simple definitely-not-thousands-of-concurrent-connections kinda problems, the typical language's standard library operation of "do this one thing and wait indefinitely until it's done" gets fairly annoying, working around it with threads is also annoying, and I'm just kinda hoping that the people working on making the async IO user experience better will accidentally make my life easier as well.