From: Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions <guile-user@gnu.org>
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com>, Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
<guile-user@gnu.org>,
Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltstahl@posteo.de>
Subject: Re: [ANN] Guile-Parallel 1.0.0 released
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:24:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h6x8pr2s.fsf@laura> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rmia630br81.fsf@s1.lexort.com>
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!
--
Olivier Dion
oldiob.dev
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-02 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-31 3:55 [ANN] Guile-Parallel 1.0.0 released Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2022-12-31 9:06 ` Damien Mattei
2022-12-31 19:58 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2022-12-31 20:31 ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2023-01-02 16:13 ` Greg Troxel
2023-01-02 17:59 ` Maxime Devos
2023-01-02 20:45 ` Greg Troxel
2023-01-02 21:24 ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions [this message]
2023-01-02 23:56 ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2023-01-03 10:57 ` Damien Mattei
2023-01-03 21:40 ` guile-fibers timerfd_create bug (was: Re: [ANN] Guile-Parallel 1.0.0 released) Maxime Devos
2023-01-03 22:38 ` Damien Mattei
2023-01-03 22:43 ` Maxime Devos
2023-01-04 1:28 ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2023-01-03 22:06 ` [ANN] Guile-Parallel 1.0.0 released Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2023-01-03 22:29 ` Damien Mattei
2023-01-02 20:28 ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2023-01-08 13:30 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2023-01-08 14:44 ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2023-01-08 15:17 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2023-01-08 15:55 ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2023-01-08 15:59 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
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2023-01-03 16:47 dsmich
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