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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by cutler on Thursday July 12, 2018 @09:15PM (#17519862)
32,000 pages simultaneously - in 1995? Async has only recently been added to Python, no?
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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by mathgenius on Thursday July 12, 2018 @10:30PM (#17520105)
Using select: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Select_(Unix)
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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by scandox on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:01AM (#17521231)
Doesn't select have a maximum of 1024 file descriptors it can handle at any one time? Or some such?
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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by __sr__ on Saturday July 14, 2018 @01:46PM (#17531379)
By default, yes. But it can be increased. See limit(1) and ulimit(1).
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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by gcb0 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @10:54PM (#17520187)
is that a fact or are you guessing?
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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by adamnemecek on Thursday July 12, 2018 @10:57PM (#17520198)
select doesnt scale well.
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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by boyter on Thursday July 12, 2018 @09:22PM (#17519885)
Using threads maybe? Id be curious to see how you would achieve that in Python easily back in 1995.
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