Comment by zxcvcxz

Here's what I don't understand: If IOCP gives us such a great performance boost why don't I see people using it, even on Windows systems? The first thing that comes to mind is that IOCP can likely only maintain high performance under certain edge-cases that aren't pertinent to the real world, second is that the other I/O models are needed not for unix, but for other aspects of the language its self where IOCP is not appropriate. So IOCP likely causes overhead. I don't know much about it so maybe someone can explain. It sounds revolutionary if it can be applied to the real world and not just edge cases.