Re: which async framework?

From	Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: which async framework?
Date	2014-03-12 00:18 +0200
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Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>:

> It's not "epoll function calls" that the coroutine style is intended
> to replace, it's complex systems of chained callbacks. They're
> supposed to make that kind of logic *easier* to follow. If you haven't
> had that experience, it may be because you've only dealt with simple
> cases.

The coroutines are definitely something to get into, although I'm
skeptical as well. Epoll and the associated idioms have been with us for
a long time and are well understood.

As for "easy to follow," unfortunately the complexities of network state
machines cannot be abstracted out, and the result is never exactly easy
to the eye.


Marko

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Re: which async framework? Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com> - 2014-03-11 17:44 +0000
  Re: which async framework? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-03-12 10:56 +1300
    Re: which async framework? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-12 00:18 +0200

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