Chris's Wiki :: blog/tech/ReadIOIsSynchronous Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/ReadIOIsSynchronous?atomcommentsDWiki2010-10-18T12:16:30ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/tech/ReadIOIsSynchronous.By Chris Siebenmann on /blog/tech/ReadIOIsSynchronoustag:CSpace:blog/tech/ReadIOIsSynchronous:eaac7d255d2d04d304008e6242b1ed70c475985bChris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>This is true of IO in general, but I can't think of much other sorts of IO
that you can even potentially defer reads for behind the back of the
program.</p>
<p>It's an interesting question why this is so. I think it's that disk IO
(or plain file IO in general) is the only case where you definitely know
that the data exists and how much there is before you actually have it in
hand.</p>
</div>2010-10-18T12:16:30ZFrom 89.27.51.67 on /blog/tech/ReadIOIsSynchronoustag:CSpace:blog/tech/ReadIOIsSynchronous:2d1e5150c8e4f41158c1e5c66a291c7fdfb7b555From 89.27.51.67<div class="wikitext"><p>I thought you were taking about I/O in general rather thank disk I/O until you mentioned rusty platters somewhere around the middle of the text.</p>
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