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

[Sam Thursfield <ssssam gmail com>]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:02 AM, cee1 <fykcee1 gmail com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Have a look at chergert's Iris library, which heads down the same road
you are proposing:

http://github.com/chergert/iris

> --
> Regards,
> - cee1
>
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