Re: Functions for embedders to override

>>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[email protected]> writes:

  DS> At 6:32 PM +0100 8/10/04, Arthur Bergman wrote:

  >> Modern operating systems all have a way to get around the suckiness
  >> of poll/select when you have large number of fds
  >> (epoll/aio/kqueue/whatever), there should be away to override those
  >> interfaces as well :-) (maniac laugh)

  DS> Gah. I want one semi-generic way. And a lollypop, too, so at least I'm
  DS> pretty sure to get one of two.

  DS> Overriding poll/select is more because I'm assuming that any system
  DS> which overrides the file functions may well override the monitoring
  DS> functions for filehandles.

take a look at libevent which wraps most/all of the select flavors and
provides a single api. it's a c lib with some flavor of open source
license. i would love to see it wrapped in perl5 xs/swig/inline
and put on cpan (hint! :) .

supporting all those event loop flavors directly in parrot seems like
too much work.

uri

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