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> The moment we perform I/O… both the futures and the generic thread pool models fall short. On Windows they usually work fine. OS kernel support is the key. O
by Const-me 8y ago
> The moment we perform I/O… both the futures and the generic thread pool models fall short.
On Windows they usually work fine. OS kernel support is the key. OS-provided thread pool scales really well. I’m talking about the modern one from threadpoolapiset.h, StartThreadpoolIo / SubmitThreadpoolWork API functions.
> we might want to limit network requests going to individual hosts, independently from disk reads or writes, or from database transactions.
There’re APIs like ReleaseSemaphoreWhenCallbackReturns and SetEventWhenCallbackReturns.