[zeromq-dev] Cleaning-up context creation API

[Chuck Remes]

On Mar 19, 2012, at 4:22 PM, Pieter Hintjens wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Following this discussion from some time ago, I've created an issue
> here: https://zeromq.jira.com/browse/LIBZMQ-337
> 
> I see that Crossroads has implemented my suggestion for moving
> iothreads out of the context creation call. Nice.
> 
> Before we backport that change and make the other API changes, could
> we get consensus on the value of this change? Particularly from
> binding authors.

For the Ruby language, I had just set a default value for the io_threads argument to 1. Most people were just calling Context.new and never even realized there was an option to override. I think there is value here.

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