From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: [ANN] Guile-Parallel 1.0.0 released Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:24:59 -0500 Message-ID: <87h6x8pr2s.fsf@laura> References: <87wn68p6qi.fsf@laura> <87pmbzpb6h.fsf@laura> Reply-To: Olivier Dion Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2140"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions , Zelphir Kaltstahl To: Greg Troxel , Maxime Devos Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 02 22:25:49 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pCSJY-0000Lp-QH for guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2023 22:25:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pCSJ0-00070f-GK; Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:25:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pCSIv-00070H-1F for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:25:09 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.polymtl.ca ([132.207.4.11]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pCSIt-0003Nt-2L for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:25:08 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (modemcable094.169-200-24.mc.videotron.ca [24.200.169.94]) by smtp.polymtl.ca (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 302LOxur002770; Mon, 2 Jan 2023 16:25:04 -0500 DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 smtp.polymtl.ca 302LOxur002770 In-Reply-To: X-Poly-FromMTA: (modemcable094.169-200-24.mc.videotron.ca [24.200.169.94]) at Mon, 2 Jan 2023 21:24:59 +0000 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.207.4.11; envelope-from=olivier.dion@polymtl.ca; helo=smtp.polymtl.ca X-Spam_score_int: -41 X-Spam_score: -4.2 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.2 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.user:18826 Archived-At: On Mon, 02 Jan 2023, Greg Troxel wrote: > Maxime Devos 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