Comment by Cloudef

14 hours ago

kqueue is similar to epoll, it's readiness based and not completion like IOCP and io_uring. IOCP is nice in theory, but the api and the different ways everything has to be fed for it leaves a lot to be desired... Windows also has own version of iouring, but it's bit abandoned and only works for disk io which is shame, because it could have been nice new clean io api for windows.

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Cloudef

dataflow 10 hours ago

I don't know how it compares, but for sockets Windows also has Registered I/O: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/...

Const-me 9 hours ago

> the api and the different ways everything has to be fed for it leaves a lot to be desired

I think Microsoft fixed that in Windows Vista by providing a higher-level APIs on top of IOCP. See CreateThreadpoolIo, CloseThreadpoolIo, StartThreadpoolIo, and WaitForThreadpoolIoCallbacks WinAPI functions.