Top "Blocking" questions

Blocking mode I/O blocks the issuing thread until the operation transfers at least one byte or an error or end of stream occurs.

ASP.net session request queuing

It seems to me that ASP.net queues up all requests that use the same Session ID. Let's say you've …

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Does a thread waiting on IO also block a core?

In the synchronous/blocking model of computation we usually say that a thread of execution will wait (be blocked) while …

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Is Google Maps blocking me?

I'm programming web application that works with Google Maps and I need to generate PDF output so I decided to …

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C++ - how does Sleep() and cin work?

Just curious. How does actually the function Sleep() work (declared in windows.h)? Maybe not just that implementation, but anyone. …

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Event Loop vs Multithread blocking IO

I was reading a comment about server architecture. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=520077 In this comment, the person says 3 …

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