Re: Comments on ‘wip-nio’

[Andreas Rottmann]

Nala Ginrut <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I had a quick look at ‘wip-nio’, and here are initial comments.
>>
>>  • epoll is Linux-specific.  Any idea how a more multi-platform API
>>    could be provided?  I guess libevent could be used, but we don’t
>>    want to add one more dependency in 2.0.  How much is (ice-9 nio)
>>    dependent on epoll vs. poll, for instance?
>>
>>
> Maybe add a module named "(ice-9 linux)"? And we may add more
> Linux-specific things.
> Also "(ice-9 bsd)" which provides "kqueue" or other interesting things.
> If users try to use BSD-specific modules under Linux, we may throw an
> exception. And functions like
> "under-bsd?" or "under-linux?" maybe helpful.
> Anyway, libevent for Guile is also a good idea. But I don't think libevent
> should integrate into Guile. We can write
> a standalone guile-libevent.
>
I've been looking a bit at C event loop libraries, and just wanted to
note that libev[0] seems like a viable alternative to libevent.

[0] http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html

Regards, Rotty
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Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>