Re: new event loop

>>>>> "EH" == Espen Harlinn <[email protected]> writes:

  EH> I think most (all???) of what is needed can be found at:
  EH> http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html

looking it over

  EH> I know it's C++, but this framework is well designed - and it is
  EH> portable :-) (in other words: it has been ported to an impressive
  EH> number of platforms). The features (read patterns) that can be
  EH> found in this library could be integrated into perl, or possibly
  EH> perl could be built on top of ACE. Adding support for CORBA would
  EH> then be a natural extension to perl since everything else would be
  EH> in place.

it looks pretty powerful which is one reason it may not be good to use
in perl. we don't expect to be doing CORBA level stuff in the core. :)

perl6's event loop will need to be tightly integrated with the op
dispatch loop and possibly some other critical subsystems. also the
memory management scheme we use may not be compatible with the c++ one
in ACE.

using it as a possible module in perl5 is possible. maybe all we have to
do is wrap it with inline c. brian, want to help out here?

we can define a perl level api and wrap the library with perl and c++ to
handle the mapping.

ACe doesn't seem to support async file i/o but we can add that on our
own. i think having a common api over all the different async file i/o
api's will be very popular. we can do this in the perl5 event module.

uri

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