On 8/30/11 2:35 PM, dsimcha wrote:
== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article
On 8/30/11 1:10 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
std.file.copy is synchronous. Would the suggestion then be to change it to be
asynchronous or to create a second function (e.g. copyAsync) which does an
asynchrous copy?
I think std.file.copy should do whatever the heck is best to copy a
file. As such, it should be transparently asynchronous. It would be
great if such a task caught your fancy - and don't forget to test speed
under a few circumstances.
Andrei
What about std.file.byLine and byChunk? IMHO these should be augmented, not
replaced, by byLineAsync and byChunkAsync. There's some extra cost associated
with doing this asynchronously (you need multiple buffers and you need to fire
up
a thread unless you have the user provide a TaskPool) and probably some tuning
options that should be exposed. Furthermore, byLine and byChunk are inherently
lower level than copy and therefore control is more important and simplicity
less
important.
I agree.
Andrei
