Proposal for Introducing a high level framework of concurrent & asynchronous programming

[cee1 <fykcee1 gmail com>]

Hi all,

Glib has GMainLoop for asynchronous programming and GThread & GThreadPool for concurrent programming.�To combine the advantages of�them two, users need to take care of threads themselves in sources' callbacks.�This introduces some kind of�complexity and also duplicate works.

So introducing a high level framework of concurrent & asynchronous programming will make writing high performance code more easily.�

Apple has made this in its GCD(Grand Central Dispatch,�http://lwn.net/Articles/352978/), and I've written some slides about it:

• http://dev.lemote.com/files/upload/people/~chenj/libdispatch/libdispatch.pdf
• http://dev.lemote.com/files/upload/people/~chenj/libdispatch/libdispatch-event.pdf

�� � �Here are odp versions:

• http://dev.lemote.com/files/upload/people/~chenj/libdispatch/libdispatch.odp
• http://dev.lemote.com/files/upload/people/~chenj/libdispatch/libdispatch-event.odp

My ideas are:

• Implement a similar framework in glib.
• Make full use of epoll and eventfd, etc.
• Rewrite some code in GIO, using this new framework.

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Regards,

- cee1