in reply to Re^2: Parrot, threads & fears for the future.
in thread Parrot, threads & fears for the future.
I think non-blocking I/O is pretty hard, as evidenced by the fact that POE is still not very widely used. It can provide impressive results in the hands of skilled programmers though. It was the secret sauce that allowed the original (pre-web) AOL to scale on the hardware that was available back then.
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