Archives: October 2012

asynchronous disk I/O

Since 2010, I’ve been working, on and off, on a branch off of libtorrent which use asynchronous disk I/O, instead of the synchronous disk calls in the disk thread in 0.16.x versions. The aio branch has several performance improvements apart from allowing multiple disk operations outstanding at any given time. For instance: the disk cache allows multiple threads . . .