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Because the author is lost in peculiarities of the systems he happens to work with that he is redefining the terms (see all the discussion around "push" and "pu
by stefan_ 1y ago
Because the author is lost in peculiarities of the systems he happens to work with that he is redefining the terms (see all the discussion around "push" and "pull"). That's gonna run into this problem.
His problem is one of data transfer and a better fit for what hes looking for is probably "polling" versus "interrupt" driven.
- gugagore 1y agoInterrupts are a hardware feature on CPUs. You could have software that is effectively checking for events on each tick (clock cycle), and emulates interrupts. But that's what polling is.
- smilliken 1y agoThe operating system provides abstractions for blocking and asynchronous IO, which are the higher abstraction version of the same concept.