[Courses] [C] OT: Java (Was :Next C topic: Your Choice)

[James]

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Laurel Fan wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:45:26AM +0100, James wrote:
> > (I always used to dislike Java for its lack of performance, and the 
> > absence of non-blocking/async I/O - until I wrote my own single-threaded 
> > Java WWW server, and found it outperformed Zeus. Anyone know any good 
> > recipes for 'hat'?!)
> 
> Java now has asynchronous IO (not sure when it appeared, but it was
> relatively recent.  We use Java quite a bit at work, though I don't
> personally deal with it much).

It was added under the heading of "NIO" (New I/O) in 1.4 - announced 
shortly after I started my final year project of "add asynchronous I/O 
facilities to Java" :-)


James.