Asynchronous I/O in Windows for Unix Programmers (2011)

andrewl-hn · on March 31, 2014

Interesting that while Node and other Libuv-based projects use IOCP, Nginx keeps using select(1) calls on Windows: http://nginx.org/en/docs/windows.html

FooBarWidget · on March 31, 2014

That's because Nginx was never really designed for Windows in the first place.

nwatson · on March 31, 2014

http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-overview.html

I'd like the author also to evaluate ACE at the URL above. When we needed similar functionality in a project starting in 2004 this is what we used. Very old school C++ and others were disturbed by the liberal use of "delete this;" but it did the trick for cross platform I/O.

sillysaurus3 · on March 31, 2014

"delete this;"

That brings back some fond memories. Well, memories.

Thanks for asking about ACE. I'm curious to know as well.

k_os · on March 31, 2014

the boost asio dismissal doesn't seem warranted, not everyone cares about how large a library is as long as it gets the job done.

recentdarkness · on March 31, 2014

especially since asio is not the only useful library of boost and people comfortable with boost are also finding other handy libraries at hand. additionally asio takes care of much more than what author is focusing on. Therefore is the dismissal because of the size for sure not warranted.