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

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-22 06:41:17

Michel André wrote:
> 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.

You can probably guess that I think that the answer is no. ;-)