Re: [Boost-users] boost asio synchronous vs asynchronous operations performance

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost asio synchronous vs asynchronous operations performance
From: Donald Alan (donaldalan003_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-03-24 10:35:22

Gavin Lambert wrote
> It does.  It's fairly common to allocate 1.5x or 2x #processors threads 
> to the pool.  What happens then is that Windows will keep up to 
> #processors threads (or whatever other concurrency value you specify) 
> processing from the completion port at all times -- if one of the worker 
> threads goes to sleep on some resource other than the completion port 
> itself (during the course of whatever processing it's doing) then it 
> will allow one of the "extra" threads to be woken if needed.

Given that in the sample use case I've there are only 2 threads that are
working on ioservice I think it doesn't matter what value set as
concurrency_hint. Let me know if I'm missing something.

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