Hacker News Reader

Now that's one area where Windows really differs. You can't write a high performance server for Windows without using IOCP, which couldn't be more different from what every other platform has for that kind of thing (epoll, kqueue, /dev/poll, ...)

It was interesting watching node/libuv face all the same problems I did when originally trying to abstract over this.

View on HN

It is possible to wrap iocp api into a bsd-style socket interface compatible with epoll semantics. It ain't pretty, the socket int becomes an index into an internal map of per-socket support structs, there are ungodly edge cases and what not, but it's doable nonetheless.

Solaris?

Interesting - I wasn't aware that any other platform implemented IOCP. I wonder how that performs vs. traditional I/O with /dev/poll?

You can get information about it here

http://web.archive.org/web/20110719052845/http://developers....

Reply on news.ycombinator.com