non-blocking disk I/O

christopher at baus.net christopher at baus.net
Sat Feb 26 20:48:42 PST 2005


> Linux::AIO is a Perl module that lets you do asynchronous I/O by having
> child processes do it.
>
> So yes, we do it via child processes.  But it's all encapsulated in the
> Linux::AIO module.
>

Ah I see.  I'm not a perl programmer myself.

Thanks for the info by the way.  I've written my own proxy in C++ that is
very similar to perlbal although my focus is a bit different.  I was just
seeing what ideas I could glean from your experience perlbal.

Christopher


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