_L4NyrlfL1I0 (yrlf@graz.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 19:18:43 JST

@cuddle @drewdevault @miki

Even in Async I/O you don't have infinite work to do. At some point you will run out of useful work to do while waiting and you will need to block on I/O (otherwise you will needlessly spin the CPU)

With I/O multiplexing it's the same: you will repeatedly call poll() / epoll() / select() on your file descriptors, and as long as you still have useful work to do while waiting you can pass the timeout as 0 and it will not block if no fd is ready at this point.

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