goals

README.md

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 WIP utilities for using Chronos async with threading. The desire is to provide safe, pre-tested constructs for using threads with async.
 
-Goal is to support orc and refc, however, refc requires extra copying for data like strings.
+Goals:
+
+- support orc and refc
+  + refc may require extra copying for data
+- use event queues (e.g. channels) to/from thread pool 
+  + make it easy to monitor and debug queue capacity
+  + only use minimal AsyncFD handles
+  + lessen pressure on the main chronos futures pending queue
+- support backpressure at futures level
+- benchmarking overhead
+- special support for seq[byte]'s and strings with zero-copy
+  + implement special but limited support zero-copy arguments on refc
+