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		eyberg on Dec 16, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In Search of a Faster SQLite Anything new is going to have people poking and prodding at it. It doesn't mean that the concept is 'bad'. Linux has desperately needed an interface like io_uring for decades. Async IO was in Windows NT 3.1 in 1993.

another2another on Dec 17, 2024 | [–]

>Async IO was in Windows NT 3.1 in 1993

To be fair, Windows tried and abandoned 2 different methods of doing it before landing on the current IO Completion ports.

refulgentis on Dec 16, 2024 | [–]

Might've replied to the wrong comment: I don't think io_uring is bad, and the comment doesn't contain 'bad', and I certainly don't think async IO is bad :)

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