Re: [ANN] Guile-Parallel 1.0.0 released

[Olivier Dion]

On Mon, 02 Jan 2023, Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:
> Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> writes:
>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Guile-Fibers still uses epoll on Linux, on other systems it uses libevent.
>
> Understood - I just meant that fibers is now (at least 99% of the way)
> to "broadly portable".
>
> I don't know the details of Olivier's question and libevent, but would
> suggest that libevent does the sort of things that are needed and is the
> standard portable approach and is thus worth a hard look as the
> presumptive right answer, absent something better that only relies on
> what POSIX requires (and what's on Hurd :-).

Hmm from a description I see on Guix, libev has relative timers.  I
don't know if it's portable like libevent though.  Will look at both thanks!

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Olivier Dion
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