On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Andrei Zh <faithlessfri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Based on answers to my own question, I believe it's safe to assume that
> `read()` on file will switch to another task during IO operation.
I don't think this happens for normal file IO.
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> On Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 2:03:21 AM UTC+3, ggggg wrote:
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>> Hello All,
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>> I think that Julia IO is built on libuv, and that libuv offers
>> asynchronous IO to the filesystem. Is this exposed through the Julia API? I
>> can't figure it out from the documentation. I did a simple test
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>> julia> tic(); t = @async read(open("filename"),UInt8,2500000000); yield();
>> toc()
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>> elapsed time: 9.094271773 seconds
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>> and it seems that reading blocks without yielding.
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>> Is there a way to do this where the reading task yields to other processes
>> while it is getting the data from disk?
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