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> On Sep 16, 2014, at 8:19 PM, Jim Crossley <jim@crossleys.org> wrote:
>
> Is this an async or a blocking transfer? The problem with
> > ReadableByteChannel is that it can be a blocking channel, and as a
> > result reading from it in the IO thread will result in crappy
> > performance.
>
> Because of the way they're using it (with Clojure's core.async library)
> I expect the transfer to be async, but I'll verify that with them.

I just looked at the Jetty impl, and the code assumes blocking behavior with that method. Anything using it will be blocking reads with non blocking writes.