[zeromq-dev] zeromq and libuv

[Ian Barber]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Martin Hurton <hurtonm at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know nothing about Windows IOCP.
> Why are you interested in having zmq working with IOCP? Thanks!
>
> - Martin


This should be in a FAQ somewhere! IOCP is interesting because Windows has
slightly half arsed POSIX support (slow select, pretty hard limit on open
FDs etc.), so there's no way of doing IPC, and no really good polling on
it. IOCP provides equivalents for both of those, but uses the async do it
and notify-on-completion model rather than the poll FDs notify-on-ready
then do it model. So, the question often comes up as to whether ZeroMQ
could provide IOCP support, but it's a tricky one to integrate as it
wouldn't fit into the poller model used internally.

Sustrik I think basically came to the opinion that it was just too tricky
with the current model, which was one of the drivers of the XSNano project.
I suspect it's probably reasonably straightfoward to get something
integrated in a basic way (e.g. add a new iocp-ipc transport and i_engine,
in the style of OpenPGM), but much harder to integrate IOCP as a base
stream socket concept as with the poller stuff.

Ian
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