asynchronous sockets

[Tom Glod]

I'm relieved to hear that.... I think I misunderstood Todd's blog... maybe
his was a purely volume related bottleneck and not the library he was using.

Thanks for answering Monte.

https://livecode.com/async-data-transfer-in-livecode-problem-and-solution/

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 8:46 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

>
> > On 16 Jun 2017, at 10:26 am, Tom Glod via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm an open-source user and I am building socket communications for my
> > application.
> >
> > I'm aware of the built in internet library and the tsNet library
> available
> > to non-open source license owners.
> >
> > My question is "What isn't asyncronious about reading from and writing to
> > sockets?”
>
> Nothing really as long as you use the callback (with message) form then
> all the reading and writing is done on a separate thread. Of course your
> callback handler is handled on the main engine thread but that’s not the
> slow part so that’s fine.
>
> tsNet does not provide sockets so that and its licensing probably only
> confuses any discussion of asynchronous sockets.
>
> Cheers
>
> Monte
>
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