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Hardly exciting stuff, async libraries have been doing this for things like DNS queries (where there's no portable non-blocking API) for decades. Good for Ngin
by nly 11y ago
Hardly exciting stuff, async libraries have been doing this for things like DNS queries (where there's no portable non-blocking API) for decades. Good for Nginx addon devs I guess.
- girvo 11y agoJust because it's been done in other tools doesn't make it "hardly exciting" when an often-used tool that was lacking a feature adds it.
- coldtea 11y agoHe conflated exciting with "new development in computer science".
- gregham 11y agoWill you be exited if I tell you that nginx doing async DNS queries for decades without threads? It has it's own async resolver implementation.