Lock-Free Actor-Based Flow Programming in D2 for GSOC2011?

[Kagamin]

eris Wrote:

> Windows uses a "proactor" model instead of reactor, so it schedules I/O first and
> then waits for an IO completion flag. I've modified my reactor so that it presents
> a reactor facade even on Windows systems.

Huh? What does it change? IO is done pretty much the same on all systems: client requests an io operation, OS send the thread to sleep until the operation is complete.