Re: [TCLCORE] TIP #458: Add Support for epoll() and kqueue() in the Notifier

[Gustaf N. <ne...@wu...>]

Am 05.12.16 um 11:14 schrieb Jan Nijtmans:
> Honestly, libuv looks good to me. But it doesn more than
> only handling the event loop, all (asynchronous) I/O is
> expected to be handled by it as well. So it will be more
> a rewrite than only replacing the notifier.
the notifier libraries have - not without reason - the tendency
to take over more functionality, and certainly, it's not clear
how much of this we have to take and how much we really
want without a deeper investigation.
> So, well, let's add one more, based on libuv, and see how
> it performs compared to the other options. If this works
> out well, then the other ones can be removed for Tcl 9.0,
> and we are all happy. ;-)
If we go - for whatever reason - towards multiple notifiers,
libev is a candidate for a simpler project than libuv,
since it is primarily focusing on events:

http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod

The PORTABILITY_NOTES in the document
makes me shudder when i think about the native
implementations on platforms/releases/....
> ifdef's for Cygwin, so that it can handle both Windows and
i can't comment on this. Probably, at least for the foreseeable
future, there is no way around multiple notifiers.

-g