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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Timeouts in Ada
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 22:45:15 +0200
Date: 2014-07-17T22:45:15+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1f1ql6vimp8im$.170gwa1gxgone$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 601d8879-8f06-41b4-ab29-57c2b944cd44@googlegroups.com

On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:10:10 -0700 (PDT), NiGHTS wrote:

> On Thursday, July 17, 2014 5:48:56 AM UTC-4, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> 
>> The example is quite unrealistic. If the DB client supported asynchronous
>> requests, then it would be very unlikely polling. Any reasonably designed
>> client would use some waitable OS object instead, i.e. waiting will be
>> non-busy.
> 
> I've dealt with many database libraries which provide both blocking and
> non-blocking queries.

Non-blocking vs. blocking is not same as non-busy waiting vs. polling.
Usually if non-blocking I/O is supported then non-busy waiting is as well.
For example overlapped I/O provides many ways for non-busy waiting, an
event, GetOverlappedResult etc.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-17 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-17  5:18 Timeouts in Ada NiGHTS
2014-07-17  7:08 ` Simon Wright
2014-07-17  8:35   ` NiGHTS
2014-07-21 23:34   ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-22  1:11     ` Shark8
2014-07-22  7:39       ` J-P. Rosen
2014-07-22  8:31         ` Simon Wright
2014-07-22 21:52       ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-17  7:38 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-07-17  8:40   ` NiGHTS
2014-07-17 10:00     ` J-P. Rosen
2014-07-17 19:27   ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-17 19:51     ` J-P. Rosen
2014-07-17 20:52       ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-17 20:29     ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-17 20:52       ` J-P. Rosen
2014-07-21 23:44         ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-17 20:43     ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-21 23:37   ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-17  7:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-17  8:59   ` NiGHTS
2014-07-17  9:48     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-17 17:10       ` NiGHTS
2014-07-17 20:45         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2014-07-17 16:12 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-17 16:46   ` NiGHTS
2014-07-17 17:11     ` Simon Wright
2014-07-17 17:58       ` NiGHTS
2014-07-17 19:02         ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-17 18:58       ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-17 18:12     ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-17 19:27       ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-17 18:56     ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-23 22:37     ` Robert A Duff
2014-07-24  9:23       ` AdaMagica
2014-07-24 15:37         ` Robert A Duff
2014-07-25  5:16           ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-25  9:11           ` AdaMagica
2014-07-25 16:15             ` Brad Moore
2014-07-25 16:34             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-17 19:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
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