Re: [TCLCORE] Ideas for an optimization project

[David G. <dav...@po...>]

Jeff Hobbs wrote:
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> +1 on this project idea, and note that the difficulty will be in getting 
> a consistently 'configure'able setup that detects the best policy on the 
> machine you are on.  If you wanted the same advances on Windows, it 
> would be integrating davygravy's iocpsock work into the core.  That 
> completely drops Win9x support, but that is fine in the 8.6 (even 8.5) 
> codebase.


I'm alive, just busy with other stuff completely unrelated to programming.

Help with putting ipv6 and any other new protocols such as IrDA, 
BlueTooth, IPX/SPX, Appletalk, etc..  into [socket] (if only a framework 
for the others) would be wonderful.  And there is asynchronous multi 
protocol name resolution of all three types (static, dynamic, and 
persistent). The branch is still there, unfinished.

Maybe I can get to it in a months time, maybe not...  It really is a 
large project and way overdo.

Getting win9x support back would require a second (or parallel switched 
at run-time) notification system based around WSAEventSelect() rather 
than completion ports.  Most of the code could be shared as the concept 
of overlapped usage is the same.