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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:21:05 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:45:51 -0700, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

> On 3/10/2025 2:42 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:09:13 -0700, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>>
>>> lol! IOCP is not all that bad... :^) They have an interesting
>>> function:
>>>
>>> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/ioapiset/nf-ioapiset-getqueuedcompletionstatusex
>>
>> It’s a blocking call:
>>
>>      This function associates a thread with the specified completion
>>      port. A thread can be associated with at most one completion port.
>
> did you notice the timeout parameter?

That leads to busy-waiting.

>> So, no nondeterministic event-loop handling for you ...