asynchronous sockets

[Tom Glod]

thank you guys for clearing that up for me, and future users who may ask
about this.

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 1:38 AM, Charles Warwick via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> On 16/06/2017 2:39 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote:
>
>> On 16 Jun 2017, at 2:22 pm, Tom Glod via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.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.
>>>
>> Ah, yes his is a use case that had lots of requests running in parallel
>> and from the looks of things to the same API which libURL doesn’t cope with
>> (would need a redesign to have request IDs rather than using the URL as the
>> ID). I’m not sure if he needed asynchronous put, post or delete but that’s
>> also something libURL doesn’t do. So the sockets are fine it’s just libURL
>> implementation that would need some help to meet Todd’s requirements.
>>
> In Todd's application there was a requirement for asynchronous HTTP POST
> requests which aren't supported in libURL.
>
> Without tsNet, POST requests need to be sent in series.... "post tData to
> url xxx", wait for the response and then issue the next post.   From
> memory, his application sends over 1000 POSTs to perform a sync and running
> them "one at a time" really slowed the process down.
>
> By using the asynchronous POST capabilities of tsNet, a lot of these
> requests could be sent without waiting for others to complete.  This is
> what provided the dramatic performance improvement he saw.
>
> Regards,
>
> Charles
>
>
> Cheers
>>
>> Monte
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