Re: [ANN] Guile-Parallel 1.0.0 released

[Greg Troxel]

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Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions <guile-user@gnu.org>
writes:

> I haven't use fibers a lot, but I think that if you ever need to handle
> asynchronous I/O, for now you should stick with fibers.  Also, fibers
> was written by peoples that have a way better understanding of Guile
> internal then I do, so I would expect it to be better in some areas.  It
> also use epoll(2) instead of select(2), which is way better for events
> listening.  I will make the change once Guile has native support for
> epoll(2).  I currently only use select(2) for listening on
> timerfd_create(2) timers to handle sleeps of userspace threads, so the
> impact is marginal.

epoll is as I understand it linux only so that's not a reasonable
dependency.   fibers now works with libevent which wraps multiple
faclilities and is thus pretty portable.