Re: [MiNT] State of the Union

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@boerde.de>]

Hello Howard!

Nice to hear from you.

> > Ah, I see. Personally I wanted to go into the kqueue() direction as 
> > introduced and used by the BSD systems. This solution looks very easy to 
> > use and is extremly flexible and extensible. It's basically a 
> > filedescriptor and you add a list of events (determined by id and a filter) 
> > you want to wait for.
>
> See this message
> http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200411/msg00088.html
>
> kqueue has some other performance limitations as well. The scheme I outline 
> in the above link addresses all of those shortcomings.

Yes, very interesting ideas. Ok, we aggree that kqueue() is a good 
direction :-) But we need also to have in mind that for FreeMiNT we don't 
need to optimize our interface to handle several thousand open files 
efficiently. I would rather optimize it for small memory consumption as I 
don't think we have such heavy server applications in the next time.


Regards,
Frank

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