Chapter 28. I/O-Bound Asynchronous Operations
In this chapter:
How Windows Performs I/O Operations
How the Compiler Transforms an Async Function into a State Machine
Async Functions and Event Handlers
Async Functions in the Framework Class Library
Async Functions and Exception Handling
Applications and Their Threading Models
Implementing a Server Asynchronously
Some I/O Operations Must Be Done Synchronously
The previous chapter focused on ways to perform compute-bound operations asynchronously, allowing the thread pool to schedule the tasks onto multiple cores so that multiple threads can work concurrently, which increases throughput ...
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