asynchronous sockets

[Tom Glod]

ahhh I got my sockets vs http requests confusled too

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Tom Glod <tom at makeshyft.com> wrote:

> 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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