On 1/10/06, Chris Cleeland <cleeland@ociweb.com> wrote:
2. unnecessary features
Is hostname resolution really so much of an overhead that we need asynch hostname resolution? If the feature were basically "free", I would
Yes, it can be. In any application I've ever seen that does potentially large numbers of Internet hostname lookups (e.g. web browsers, spiders, and the like), hostname resolution is delegated to one or more background threads. There is simply no predicting how long a query might or might not take. say okay, but the fact that it requires firing up an extra thread behind
the scenes (another one of my pet peeves) makes it seem like a wholly unnecessary feature.
I think that very few, if any, platforms ship with an asynchronous resolver API at present (OSX 10.4 maybe?) but I'm sure Chris will make every effort to make use of these when they come into being. -- Caleb Epstein caleb dot epstein at gmail dot com