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Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 01:26:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Aaron Sethman <androsyn@ratbox.org>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
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Subject: Re: [Coder-Com] Re: PROBLEM: high system usage / poor SMPnetwork 
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On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> In an effort to somehow control the mushrooming number of IO interface
> strategies, why not take a look at the work Ben and Suparna are doing in aio,
> and see if there's an interface mechanism there that can be repurposed?

When AIO no longer sucks on pretty much every platform on the face of the
planet I think people will reconsider.  In the mean time, we've got to
deal with that is there.  That leaves us writing for at least 6 very
similiar, I/O models with varying attributes.

Regards,

Aaron

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