Re: [boost] asio formal review begins

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-14 11:13:43

Arkadiy Vertleyb wrote:

> Let me disagree with this.  There are cases when having multiple
> threads, each working in a synchronous way, is a better approach.
> First, it's much more intuitive, and easier to debug.  Second,
> sometimes it's the only way to achieve you goal, such as whan you
> can't (or don't want to) rewrite your processing algorithm in
> asynchronous way.
>
> And when such a case arrives, it would be nice to have a clean socket
> class, without build-in asynchronisity.

Even if this is the case, is it the responsibility of a library that offers 
Asynchronous I/O as a primary focus to supply a clean socket class that has 
nothing to do with async I/O?