Re: [Haskell-cafe] Optimizing a high-traffic network architecture

On 16.12 07:03, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:

On 12/16/05, Einar Karttunen wrote:

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To matters nontrivial all the *nix variants use a different more efficient replacement for poll.

So we should find a library that offers a unified interface for all of them, or implement one ourselves.

I am pretty sure such a library exists. It should fall back to select() or poll() on platforms that don't have better alternatives.

network-alt has select(2), epoll, blocking and very experimental kqueue (the last one is not yet committed but I can suply patches if someone is interested. - Einar