Notes for Windows users

• The _GIPCReader.get() timeout feature is not available.
• “Non-blocking I/O” is imitated by outsourcing blocking I/O calls to threads in a gevent thread pool. Compared to native non-blocking I/O as is available on POSIX-compliant systems, this leads to a significant messaging performance drop.

Windows I/O Completion Ports (IOCP) could solve both issues in an elegant way. Currently, gevent is built on top of libev which does not support IOCP. In the future, however, gevent might become libuv-backed. libuv supports IOCP and would allow for running the same gevent code on Windows as on POSIX-compliant systems. Furthermore, if gevent went with libuv, the strengths of both, the node.js and the gevent worlds would be merged. Denis Bilenko, the maintainer of gevent, seems to be open to such a transition and the first steps are already done.