Re: Background loading thread

Hello,

> Now, if all the ReadFile calls happen from a separate thread, devoted
> 100% to them, is there a good reason to inflict on myself considerable
> pain and suffering by using the overlapped I/O API?

> Does anyone have any related war stories to tell?

I have done some looking into this topic; you may be interested in the  
resulting paper:  
http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~urkt/articles/study_thesis.pdf . There  
is brief discussion of sync vs. async IO in Section 3.1.
Questions, comments and discussion welcome!

Best Regards
Jan Wassenberg

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