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Re: which async framework?

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On 2014-03-11, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
> Sturla Molden <sturla.molden <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> Chris Withers <chris <at> simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> > 
>> > I see python now has a plethora of async frameworks and I need to try 
>> > and pick one to use from:
>> > 
>> > - asyncio/tulip
>> > - tornado
>> > - twisted
>> 
>> I'd go for using iocp, epoll and kqueue/kevent directly. Why bother to
>> learn a framework? You will find epoll and kqueue/kevent in the select
>> module and iocp in pywin32.
>
> Yes, why use a library when you can rewrite it all yourself?
> Actually, you should probably issue system calls to the kernel directly,
> the libc is overrated (as is portability, I suppose).

And don't bother with device drivers for the network adapters either.
Just map their PCI regions in to user-space and twiddle the reigisters
directly!  ;)

[I do that when testing PCI boards with C code, and one of these days
I'm going to figure out how to do it with Python.]

-- 
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Re: which async framework? Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> - 2014-03-11 16:01 +0000
  Re: which async framework? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-11 16:52 +0000
    Re: which async framework? jkn <jkn_gg@nicorp.f9.co.uk> - 2014-03-11 10:13 -0700
    Re: which async framework? Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> - 2014-03-12 07:16 -0400

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