[Twisted-Python] Scaling problem

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:21:46 -0800 (PST)
Nathan Seven <scosol at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Am I severely confused here?
> The entire point of Twisted (to me anyway) seems to be
> to  provide non-blocking interfaces to long-running
> and/or blocking resources.

Long-running yes, blocking, no. There is no magic way to make a blocking
API not-block. So you need to either rewrite from scratch, or use
threads.

For example, "send an email and return success or failure" can be
written using non-blocking APIs, since sockets have non-blocking APIs.
Calling a DB-API database adapter's cursor.fetchall() method can not
(unless you want to rewrite the database's wire protocol).

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