On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Levi Greenspan
Thank you (and Christopher) for the link. I have one question though - I read this ticket in the GHC trac: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/635 which plans to use epoll instead of select. The reason I thought of libevent is exactly the support for epoll and other better-than-select mechanisms. Is there progress in GHC with regard to this? This is very important for me since I awill not write a web-server, but rather want to play with Comet (i.e. having thousands of open connections as it is common for long-polling in addition to many relatively short request/response based connections).
Bryan O'Sullivan make an off-the-cuff remark about doing this work at a talk a few months back, however I haven't heard anything about him starting. I think it's safe to assume that no one has taken it up yet. Personally, some of my other projects are higher priorities at the moment. I'd suggest that you write your server on the select() based system as-is for now. Then, when you need epoll you'll be sufficiently motivated to hack up the RTS to include it ;) AGL -- Adam Langley agl@imperialviolet.org http://www.imperialviolet.org