On Mon, 02 Jan 2023, Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: > O > Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions <guile-user@gnu.org> > writes: > >> I haven't use fibers a lot, but I think that if you ever need to handle >> asynchronous I/O, for now you should stick with fibers. Also, fibers >> was written by peoples that have a way better understanding of Guile >> internal then I do, so I would expect it to be better in some areas. It >> also use epoll(2) instead of select(2), which is way better for events >> listening. I will make the change once Guile has native support for >> epoll(2). I currently only use select(2) for listening on >> timerfd_create(2) timers to handle sleeps of userspace threads, so the >> impact is marginal. > > 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.
I typically only develop for Linux. But I don't mind using an abstraction that could be portable for other systems. Do you think libevent has something similar to timerfd_create(2)? That is, timers represented by file descriptor. -- Olivier Dion oldiob.dev
