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<H1>Re: backend fork/reader-process &lt;-&gt; sane_read</H1>
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<STRONG>From:</STRONG> Matto Marjanovic (<A HREF="mailto:maddog@mir.com?Subject=Re:%20backend%20fork/reader-process%20&lt;-&gt;%20sane_read&In-Reply-To=&lt;E12MuPW-0003Tt-00@yoo-hoo.ai.mit.edu&gt;"><EM>maddog@mir.com</EM></A>)<BR>
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I just wanted to throw in my two cents on this, because I haven't heard
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&nbsp;something that I expected to hear in the whole thread on this issue....
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<P>It's been my understanding that, originally, all the forking around in
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&nbsp;the backends was in order to implement asynchronous I/O, and the intent
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&nbsp;of asynchronous I/O (and sane_set_io_mode()) was not to tune the scanner
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&nbsp;speed, but to improve GUI response. Under async I/O, the GUI/frontend
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&nbsp;would not block while waiting for the backend to deliver a full buffer
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&nbsp;of data.
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<P>Obviously, all the extra copying that goes on with sending scanlines
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&nbsp;from one process to another via pipes is not an efficiency gain, and
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&nbsp;that is kind of why I haven't bothered jumping through the hoops to
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&nbsp;add async I/O to the microtek backend. (But, my scanner also seems
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&nbsp;to have bigger buffers than some other scanners out there -- Hah-hah!
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&nbsp;At least they did *something* right.)
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<P>-matt m.
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