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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 23:03:46 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 13:03:23 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> Well, handheld gaming to gaming is like masturbation to love. Sorry...
> 
>> Microsoft has been talking about bringing out a
>> Windows “Handheld Mode” for about two years now, but still has nothing
>> to ship.

So what do you think Microsoft has been doing with its hands all that 
time? ;)

> On 2024-08-19 10:45, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 09:37:39 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>
>>> On 2024-08-19 01:14, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 10:10:09 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Windows has a pipe object named and anonymous. No problem.
>>>>
>>>> One problem: you can’t use them with poll/select calls.
>>>
>>> You can. See overlapped I/O.
>> 
>> I said “poll/select calls”. Do you not know what those are? On Windows,
>> they work with sockets, but not with pipes. Or even ordinary files. So
>> unlike *nix systems, you have to keep in mind the different kinds of
>> files you might be working with.
> 
> Again. It is called overlapped I/O. You can start multiple
> *asynchronous* I/O operations from a thread.

I’m not talking about using threads. I’m talking about avoiding threads, 
and all their potential for difficult-to-fix race-condition-type bugs.

I’m talking about situations where the bottleneck is the I/O, not the CPU, 
so multithreading gets you nothing.