[Python-Dev] Slides from today's parallel/async Python talk

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:21:14 -0700
Trent Nelson <trent at snakebite.org> wrote:
> 
>     Actually, what's really interesting is the new registered IO
>     facilities in Windows 8/2012.  The Microsoft recommendation for
>     achieving the ultimate performance (least amount of jitter, lowest
>     latency, highest throughput) is to do something like this:
> 
>         while (1) {
> 
>             if (!DequeueCompletionRequests(...)) {
>                 YieldProcessor();
>                 continue;
>             } else {
>                 /* Handle requests */
>             }
>         }

Does Microsoft change their recommendations every couple of years? :)

Regards

Antoine.