I have been poking io-2 for some time and I came t...
# ioa
altavir
11/21/2019, 7:30 AMI have been poking io-2 for some time and I came to conclusion that sooner or later we will need to introduce suspension into it in orde to read and write dynamic inputs and outputs like inputstreams and channels. So we have two solutions: either wrap everything in callbacks and then introduce binding to coroutines or make all read and write operations suspendable from the start. The actual suspension will be done during buffer fetch/flush, so it should not affect performance much. So far I think that making everything suspendable looks better.
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elizarov
11/21/2019, 7:33 AMThe ultimate plan is to a separate set of primitives for suspendable input/output with essentially the same methods, but suspending. The reason for such separation is performace. In a typical scenario you’d parse your protocol header using suspending primitives, then read the whole block of application data into memory, then deserialize it (fast) using non-suspendable primitives (we don’t plan to support suspension in serialization)
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altavir
11/21/2019, 7:36 AMDo you mean to implement it as a separate
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elizarov
11/21/2019, 8:38 AMThere going to be
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altavir
11/21/2019, 8:39 AMOK, I will experiment around a bit. For now, I am just doing some necessary things from TODO
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kevinherron
11/21/2019, 3:16 PM@elizarov when you say “we don’t plan to support suspension in serialization” are you talking about kotlin serialization?
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elizarov
11/21/2019, 3:18 PMYes
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kevinherron
11/21/2019, 3:18 PMi wish there were some sort of roadmap or more public info on this kotlinx-io library. I’ve been following it for over a year hoping to see a roadmap or maturity
kevinherron
11/21/2019, 3:18 PMa good portion of my job is writing network protocol implementations
kevinherron
11/21/2019, 3:18 PMso i see a lot of potential here
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elizarov
11/21/2019, 3:19 PMThe road map is to finish it asap 🙂
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kevinherron
11/21/2019, 3:19 PMlol 👍
kevinherron
11/21/2019, 3:22 PMI recently finished my first pure Kotlin implementation of a protocol. It went well. Some rough edges on the unsigned types but whatever.
kevinherron
11/21/2019, 3:22 PMright now I use Netty for all my implementations. I hope with kotlinx-io I can drop that and write implementations such that they are also multi-platform and usable from K/N
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