[boost] Re: [network] An RFC - updated

From: Michel André (michel.andre_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-22 06:17:23

Peter Dimov wrote:
> 4. MT-centric model
> 
> The general idea of an asynchronous callback dispatcher is sound, but 
> the threading decision should be left to the user. The library should 
> provide
> 
>    void net::poll( timeout tm );
> 
> that delivers any pending callbacks from the context of the thread that 
> called poll, and
> 
>    void net::async_poll( error_callback );
> 
> that acts "as if" it executes net::poll( infinite ) repeatedly in one or 
> more background threads. (error_callback will be called on errors; the 
> synchronous variant will probably throw an exception instead.)

This means we have one global dispatcher for the library (completion 
queue in asynch case). Isn't there a need to have several dispatchers to 
be able to group connections to several dispatchers/pollers.

/Michel