this discussion is getting into the details -- i guess I could make a page for singlethreaded on Perlforge if it existed, or we could move the discussion to rt, for instance
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7446 IMO it would be nice if RT provided an "announce" mailing list for each queue. It might have something like that already, with the possiblity of receiving reports for new tickets created in queues you have signed up for. On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 11:33, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Presumably generating pipes to helper tasks can be done with a module on > CPAN? And is it really going to achieve faster non-blocking file IO on > anything other than Unix (or Unix-a-likes) where there will be cat? > > Nicholas Clark version 0.03 now does partial reads on large files, keeping the handles in a per-client array for reading from when the outbuffer for that client gets small. I guess version 0.04 will extend this to programs which will get opened into pipes, and do selects on the handles to avoid blocking, since nonblocking is not portable. -- david nicol "Someday, everything's going to be different when I paint my masterpiece."