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Subject: Re: New VSI post on Youtube
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 21:29:13 -0400
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On 8/20/2024 9:18 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:15:03 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> The java.io package may seem a bit complex, but it makes perfect sense
>> when you learn the structure.
> 
> Until you try to include niceties like select/poll. Then you get into a
> whole mess of extra classes/methods.
> 
> I suppose, given its origin in the 1990s, the Java designers thought all
> nonblocking I/O should be handled through threads ...

That stuff is not in java.io but in java.nio and added
in Java 1.4 (2002).

Not that many classes, but a totally different set of classes.

Arne