13 Sep
2004
13 Sep
'04
2:46 a.m.
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:52:22 -0400, David Abrahams wrote
http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?BoostSocket/M...
Before you take the discussion away, could someone please give a simple description of what's meant by "demultiplexor?" Both Aaron's and Carlos' posts seem to assume the reader knows what it is (they hint, but the hints aren't enough for me).
If read the wiki page above that will give you a detailed idea of what we are talking about. Other terms, that are probably more precise, are 'reactor' (ala Doug Schmidt's patterns), dispatcher, or event dispatcher/loop. Jeff