Hello Bryan, Saturday, March 10, 2007, 8:19:37 PM, you wrote:
-- i've added crossposts to John Meacham and Einar Karttunen because -- you also denoted interest in new i/o library Me, too :-)
strange, but your letter don't contains crossposts to them. may be it's because i had errors when tried to add crossposting to them. well, i continue in the libraries list
- portable async i/o which is able to work via select/epoll/... I think you mean non-blocking I/O here, right? Async is not the same thing.
i don't mentioned all the features that are already in ghc i/o library, they are just too numerous. but of course i suppose that we want to support them all. non-blocking i/o is among these things (see hGetBufNonBlocking/hPutBufNonBlocking) async i/o is idea of SimonM/JohnM/Einar of adding support of epoll and other async i/o systems so that thousands of haskell threads may perform i/o simultaneously w/o much cpu overhead. btw, it's already implemented in network-alt lib, but only for its networking i/o facilities. John Meacham issued an idea of universal API on top of all these systems that may be used by any i/o library (and haskell compiler) to easily implement support for async i/o. but we need details, unix tricks is not my area of knowledge
- interfacing with Streams and FPS libraries
It should also integrate cleanly with the network stack, which needs an overhaul about as badly as the I/O library. Einar Karttunen maintains his network-alt library at http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ekarttun/network-alt/ which I think is a good starting point.
yes, it's one more topic that i lost (and what i don't understand like i don't understand unix) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com