Re: [Factor-talk] Factor IO similar to Node?

[Andrea F. <fer...@gm...>]

Thank you for the explanation! It is nice to see that Factor does
automatic task switching on i/o, avoiding the callback hell typical of
Node applications

2014-07-10 6:08 GMT+02:00 Chris Double <chr...@do...>:
> A Factor instance runs in a single thread. Blocking operations are
> done either using non blocking sockets or similar async i/o methods.
> Task switching occurs on i/o wait or explicit yielding. APIs like
> ZeroMQ must be wrapped in Factor such that they use the non-block
> functionality of that API. In the case of ZeroMQ you would use the
> functionality that allows getting a file handle you can use
> select/epoll on. You would use this in factor to suspend the factor
> thread until activity on the file handle occurs at which point the
> thread would wake up and continue.
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