Coming IO features in Tango

eao197 eao197 at intervale.ru
Sat Jun 23 08:00:47 PDT 2007


On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:18:28 +0400, Lars Ivar Igesund  
<larsivar at igesund.net> wrote:

> Further on, we're building an asynchronous I/O library based on Tango's  
> IO
> abstractions with notifications sent on completion of I/O events. The  
> plan
> for the first stage of development is to have an API capable of  
> delivering
> I/O, timer and (possibly) Unix signal events to applications through
> delegates. It will be able to efficiently handle large numbers ( i.e.
> thousands) of active file descriptors/handles (sockets, pipes, etc.) on  
> all
> the platforms that Tango supports. Initially the library will work both  
> on
> Windows (using I/O completion ports) and on Linux (using epoll); we will
> then provide a Mac OS X and FreeBSD implementation (based on kqueue), and
> other platforms if there is enough interest from the community.

Looks like a significant part of ACE (ACE_Proactor) is going to Tango.
Good luck!

-- 
Regards,
Yauheni Akhotnikau



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