libtorque Portable Multithreaded Continuations for Scalable Event Driven Progr

libtorque: Portable Multithreaded Continuations for Scalable Event-Driven ProgramsNick Black and Richard Vuduc Georgia Institute of Technologynickblack@linux.com, richie@cc.gatech.eduAbstractSince before even 4.4BSD or POSIX.11, programming via events and continuations has marked best UNIX practice for handling multiplexed I/O2. The idiom’s programmability was proved sapient astride a decade’s architectures and operating systems, as libevent [19], libev, Java NIO and others achieved ubiquity amo