OSnews Asks: Could You Live Without Blocking Calls?
Linked by Hadrien Grasland on Fri 27th May 2011 11:34 UTC
General Development After having an interesting discussion with Brendan on the topic of deadlocks in threaded and asynchronous event handling systems (see the comments on this blog post), I just had something to ask to the developers on OSnews: could you live without blocking API calls? Could you work with APIs where lengthy tasks like writing to a file, sending a signal, doing network I/O, etc is done in a nonblocking fashion, with only callbacks as a mechanism to return results and notify your software when an operation is done?
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RE: Erlang
by shmerl on Sun 29th May 2011 01:46 UTC in reply to "Erlang"
shmerl
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2010-06-08

+1 for Erlang!

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RE[2]: Erlang
by Kochise on Mon 30th May 2011 01:26 in reply to "RE: Erlang"
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2006-03-03

+11 for Erlang!

Kochise

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