Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fwd: Will GHC finally support epoll in 2009?

Gregory Collins wrote:

"Bryan O'Sullivan" writes:

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If I develop the time and energy to take a serious crack at it, I will post here to let people know. This would be an effort where having multiple people work on different implementations concurrently would be a shame.

I'm interested in this topic as well and have recently starting hacking timeout support into Johan's event library:

http://github.com/tibbe/event http://github.com/gregorycollins/event

I think the overall goal should be to get rid of http://github.com/gregorycollins/event/blob/master/src/System/Event/EPoll.hs..., as it's in the core. Any non-blocking call to select should be save to replace by epoll, as the semantics are the same. As epoll is considerably more fine grained than non-blocking select, the architecture must support a run loop which effectively retrieves events faster than non-blocking select would do. Otherwise the effort would be futile.

Maybe we should form a working group?

G