| See Dean's full proposal in process-model.html | |
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| There is a decent discussion of Win NT completion ports at: | |
| http://premium.microsoft.com/msdn/library/techart/html/servrapp.htm | |
| and a so-so discussion of Win32 multithreading performance at: | |
| http://premium.microsoft.com/msdn/library/techart/html/threadli.htm | |
| The latter can be a bit trivial (eg. IO bounds tasks generally work better | |
| when concurrently executed in multiple threads, CPU bound tasks work best | |
| when serialized. duh.) but has some useful stuff in. | |
| It appears that the best way for static content on NT is to use | |
| TransmitFile, completion ports, plus a cache of file handles. Win32 | |
| doesn't support all of that, but that isn't a big deal. | |
| Completion ports appear to be able to map into async IO (ie. aio_* | |
| stuff) on Unix fine, however from what I understand some systems don't | |
| implement AIO for sockets. |