Re: Question about blocks and not blocks of threads

[Norman Palardy <npalardy@great-white-software.com>]

On Aug 12, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:

> Okay I see now the picture.
> Thank you very much.
>
> Since RB do not provides preemptive threads,
> This db plugins was made more complex than required:
>    using ASYNCH calls and callbacks.
These are normal Api's that have existed in mySQL, PostgreSQL and  
other db's for a long time
They just had not been used by REAL before

> And If RB have preemptive threads, then no needs at all
> In such dances... Could be possible to use SYNC API.
Preemptive threads are not the fix for a lot of things and sync api's  
might still not be that useful
Cooperative threads are easier for people to work with and "get right"  
than preemptive threads 

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