3 Jun
2020
3 Jun
'20
12:56 a.m.
On 6/2/20, Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
My response at the time was to question whether asynchrony itself remains
untamed, as Doug put it, or if rather it has proved difficult to retrofit
asynchrony onto a system designed around fundamentally synchronous
primitives?
I think that's a very good question. It's analogous to
record-oriented I/O vs. byte stream I/O. It's easy to build
record-oriented I/O on top of a byte stream, but it's a real bear to
do it the other way around. Similarly, it's easy to build synchronous
I/O on top of asynchronous I/O but the reverse ends up looking
contrived.
-Paul W.