Re: redmond event loop

[email protected] (Steve Lidie)
Newsgroups perl.loop
Organization Lehigh University Computing Center
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> 
> Uri Guttman <[email protected]> writes:
> >>>>>> "SL" == Steve Lidie <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> >  SL> Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> >  >>
> >  >> Steve Lidie <[email protected]> writes:
> >  >> >
> >  >> >Preliminary testing shows that Perl's native select() works OK on Win32
> >  >> >sockets.
> >  >>
> >  >> Hmm, even for listen sockets?
> >
> >  SL> Now you've got me.... didn't try that.
> >
> >select on listen sockets is critical for event loops. i trust nick's
> >experience here.
> 
> _I_ don't. Older Tk's used select() 'cos the Win32 port was basically just
> a clone of the UNIX port. fileevent worked quite well. Then I switched
> in the "real" Tcl/Tk Win32 stuff (but minus Tcl_Channel) and things got
> worse. Since then I have been messing with it. I am more than willing to
> believe that using select() might work.
> 
> >but try it out anyway.

I'll have no win32 access time until this weekend at the earliest...  but
I'll see what I can discover.
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