Re:Why Threads Are a Bad Idea (1995) [pdf]
by imtringued on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @08:05AM
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>Ryan combined the async nature of event loops with async I/O... rightfully a very clever move.
How is it clever? You cannot have async IO without an event loop. Async IO was a pretty mature technology long before nodejs came out. Netty did this back in 2004. The only special thing about nodejs is that it's culture is to be async by default.
How is it clever? You cannot have async IO without an event loop. Async IO was a pretty mature technology long before nodejs came out. Netty did this back in 2004. The only special thing about nodejs is that it's culture is to be async by default.