From: Michel André (michel.andre_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-22 06:17:23
Peter Dimov wrote:
> 4. MT-centric model
>
> The general idea of an asynchronous callback dispatcher is sound, but
> the threading decision should be left to the user. The library should
> provide
>
> void net::poll( timeout tm );
>
> that delivers any pending callbacks from the context of the thread that
> called poll, and
>
> void net::async_poll( error_callback );
>
> that acts "as if" it executes net::poll( infinite ) repeatedly in one or
> more background threads. (error_callback will be called on errors; the
> synchronous variant will probably throw an exception instead.)
This means we have one global dispatcher for the library (completion
queue in asynch case). Isn't there a need to have several dispatchers to
be able to group connections to several dispatchers/pollers.
/Michel