How does AnyEvent work?

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Re: How does AnyEvent work? by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 17, 2022 at 22:52 UTC
AnyEvent is like NodeJS. Actually more appropriate, NodeJS is more like AnyEvent, as NodeJS is based on libuv, which I think is a fork of libev, the OG backend event loop for AnyEvent. Just as NodeJS, CPU bound operations block the rest, so you have to transfer them out of process.	[reply]
Re^2: How does AnyEvent work? by Anonymous Monk on Nov 18, 2022 at 08:26 UTC
>so you have to transfer them out of process. I see.So how do you do that with Perl/AnyEvent?	[reply]
Re^3: How does AnyEvent work? by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 18, 2022 at 12:22 UTC
In general, you run a second process and send it commands to perform. See for example AnyEvent::Run, AnyEvent::Fork or any of the RPC modules.	[reply]
Re: How does AnyEvent work? by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Nov 19, 2022 at 20:17 UTC
Some sources: libuv Epoll Kqueue IOCP A look at UV could also be interesting. Quite surprising that no one at PM seems to use it. In any case, I have not found a thread in which the module is even mentioned. ŤThe Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostropheť	[reply]