On Wed, 2015-02-11 at 21:26 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 11/02/15 21:10, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > > Another example: for some odd reason, GLocalFileInputStream isn't a > > pollable output stream > > (I assume you mean GLocalFileOutputStream.) > > > Why was this done? I don't know. > > AIUI, because all Unix kernels treat local I/O as arbitrarily fast, > hence "local" files (which might in fact be NFS-mounted from another > continent) are not usefully pollable.
It doesn't have to NFS-mounted to be slow. The crappy SSD in this laptop also sometimes gets itself into a state where writes are *extremely* slow, and you really notice the apps which are writing to local files from their main loop. -- dwmw2
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