Re: [asio-users] thread-safe async_write with streambuf

[Daniel C. <dan...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Scott Gifford<sgi...@su...> wrote:
> Derek Taylor <dt...@da...> writes:

> I implemented something very similar, and found that it worked
> reliably and performance was fine.  Asio can actually write a whole
> vector of buffers at once, so I simply kept a vector of buffers
> waiting to be written, and when I flushed the write buffer I would ask
> asio to send the entire vector, then start working in a new vector.

You can also use a pair of asio::streambuf objects to double buffer
your sends. Copy the data into one of the streambufs while the other
is being flushed to the network. Additionally, it gives you a
convenient place to serialize the data before transmission.

-- 
~Dan