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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.