Re: port to twisted

Just to be sure I understand... there is a kqueue [*bsd] reactor
already in twisted, but not one for epoll [linux], right? And Joyce
needs one for Linux?

----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Russell <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:11:42 -0800
To: George Schlossnagle <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] port to twisted

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> On Friday 26 March 2004 2:05 pm, George Schlossnagle wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Joyce Park has been talking to me about porting mod_pubsub to use
> > the twisted event framework.  I've done some poking around and
> > wanted to share some assessments before I start work in earnest:
> >
> > In your main event loop, you currently do this:
> >
> >           while server.alive:
> >               asyncore.poll(scheduler.timeout())
> >               scheduler.run()
> 
> Right. This was the primary discussion point around 
> poll/select/kqueue/epoll. We all realize that this is horrendously 
> inefficient. The Plan (TM), as I understand it, is to move this to a 
> Twisted reactor and then use the appropriate reactor for the system 
> at hand (kqueue, epoll, etc...).
> 
> Someone had mentioned libevent on Wed, and I'm considering writing a 
> reactor for it, which would ease the portability issues further.
> 
> [ snip ]
> > Actual implementation aside, is their any reason I'm missing as to
> > why this is a bad idea? 
> 
> Nope, it's exactly the right approach.
> 
> Regards
> 
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