Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)

On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 13:03:23 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

Well, handheld gaming to gaming is like masturbation to love. Sorry...
 

Microsoft has been talking about bringing out a
Windows “Handheld Mode” for about two years now, but still has nothing
to ship.

So what do you think Microsoft has been doing with its hands all that
time? ;)

On 2024-08-19 10:45, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 09:37:39 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
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On 2024-08-19 01:14, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 10:10:09 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
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Windows has a pipe object named and anonymous. No problem.

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One problem: you can’t use them with poll/select calls.

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You can. See overlapped I/O.

 
I said “poll/select calls”. Do you not know what those are? On Windows,
they work with sockets, but not with pipes. Or even ordinary files. So
unlike *nix systems, you have to keep in mind the different kinds of
files you might be working with.

 
Again. It is called overlapped I/O. You can start multiple
*asynchronous* I/O operations from a thread.

I’m not talking about using threads. I’m talking about avoiding threads,
and all their potential for difficult-to-fix race-condition-type bugs.

I’m talking about situations where the bottleneck is the I/O, not the CPU,
so multithreading gets you nothing.