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•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

anyway I explained what I knew here, if you want to know more - browse code 🤷‍♂️

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CC#

•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

but you are trying to tackle on too many unrelated topics at once

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CC#

•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

well, it is usually organized by assemblies

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•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

the bundling is completely orthogonal to organization in runtime

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CC#

•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

there is no magic - it is all implementation details

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•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

personally I have a disdain towards superstition-like approach to things, it's not productive

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•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

depends on organization in a particular folder/project

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•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

most calls in CoreLib for things like reading files are just calling kernel api

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CC#

•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

old books may provide misleading mental model

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•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

or odd things like threadlocals which also both tied in to platform-specific parts written in C++ but also have C# implementation details

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•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

where parts are in C++ and parts are in C#

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CC#

•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

some are split like type system facilities

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•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

some facilities that enable .NET to work as a VM are written in C++ like GC and JIT

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CC#

•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

there is no clear split of "managed bits are C# and strictly non-runtime" vs "unmanaged bits are strictly runtime"

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•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

mostly that and also making implementation unified across windows and unix

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•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

because the only thing that matters is what we have today and the way it works

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•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

either way you should let the old idea of CLR how it was envisioned during .NET Framework days die

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•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

so you can't probably say that PortableThreadPool is a definitive part of "CLR"

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•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

because both would use the same PortableThreadPool implementation on a given platform

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•Created by ethanrox on 2/28/2024 in #help

IO threads - why need them?

plus clr vs mono - these control the compiler being used and the GC being used

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