[Catalyst] Streaming IO

[Matt S Trout]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:23:33AM +0200, Sebastian Riedel wrote:
> 
> Am 17.08.2005 um 00:11 schrieb Matt S Trout:
> >Not exactly.
> >
> >If you want to do asynchronous I/O on a particular task you need an  
> >event
> >driven POE handler for that task. DBI doesn't do asynchronous IO,  
> >so people
> >fudge it by forking.
> >
> >Provided you're happy with synchronous I/O you can use whatever you  
> >like
> >under POE.
> >
> >All POE would be handling here is the streaming input and streaming  
> >output
> >at the start and end of a request; in the middle is just a normal  
> >Catalyst
> >processing stage, pretty much.
> >
> >Well, until I get some of my scarier ideas working, anyway ...
> 
> But it still minimizes the benefits...

For current code, yes. However currently people can't do streaming I/O at
all. New code, OTOH, could potentially take great advantage of this with
a little help from Catalyst. Perhaps

sub foo :Local :Async {

to indicated it's a component that co-operates with a POE core?

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