{"id":1036,"date":"2008-03-16T20:41:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T10:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/16\/windows-finally-gets-poll-wellwsapoll\/"},"modified":"2008-03-16T20:41:16","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T10:41:16","slug":"windows-finally-gets-poll-wellwsapoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/16\/windows-finally-gets-poll-wellwsapoll\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows finally gets poll() (well…WSAPoll)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Found this today: Windows Core Networking : WSAPoll, A new Winsock API to simplify porting poll() applications to Winsock.<\/a><\/p>\n

Which means we should be able to squeeze some peformance out of Vista. Although, since poll() we’ve gone and moved on to much better things in the free world.<\/p>\n

As part of porting MySQL Cluster to Microsoft Windows platforms, I’m going and redoing a lot of the portable sockets code in MySQL. My goal is to have enforcing of proper use of the portable functions be done by the compiler instead of the programmer – leading to less portability bugs.<\/p>\n

Let’s face it: friends don’t let friends have to run Windows to not break the Windows port.<\/p>\n

Good news is that so far I’ve found several bugs that could have presented them in real nasty ways at run time but have instead showed up as build errors – brilliant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Found this today: Windows Core Networking : WSAPoll, A new Winsock API to simplify porting poll() applications to Winsock. Which means we should be able to squeeze some peformance out of Vista. 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