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Why is an event loop needed for Asynchronous I/O

I've done lots of development in C#/.Net, and the asynchronous story has always been there from day one (admittedly the API's have changed significantly over the years from begin/end to events, to ...
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Ruby C Extension: run an event loop concurrently

I'm implementing a simple windowing library as a Ruby C extension. Windows have a handle_events! method that enters their native event loop. The problem is that I want one event loop per window and ...
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