Re: [Chicken-users] Async IO (was Re: libcurl?)

[F. Wittenberger]

Am Dienstag, den 04.10.2005, 14:01 -0500 schrieb Peter Keller:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:40:42PM -0400, Graham Fawcett wrote:
> > On 10/4/05, Will M. Farr <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > I don't know what Twisted is, but you might have a look at Termite
> > > (mentioned in this blog
> > > http://patricklogan.blogspot.com/2005/07/termite-lisp-for-distributed-
> > > computing.html ); it sounds like what you're talking about done in
> > > Gambit-C.
> 
> Hmm.... Twisted has a lot of the same look and feel of E[1]. 
> 
> > There's no threading
> > overhead, and such a "monolithic, non-blocking" design can handle a
> > very large number of concurrent connections, usually scaling better
> > than a multithreaded architecture.
> 
> There is another large problem with threaded and, by extension, distributed
> programming (languages). 
> 
> Reproducability and Debugging.

Sight.  ;-)

> It is simply a serious nightmare if the above topic was never thought
> about in the inception of the codebase.

/Jörg