Re: libcurl read-llike interface.

2020-12-14 Thread Daniel Stenberg via curl-library
On Mon, 14 Dec 2020, XSLT2.0 via curl-library wrote: But instructions you don't do are always faster than the one you do, aren't they? This means efficiency, so less CPU for the same task. It means less CPU for that particular copy, yes. But it might mean more CPU for logic around it, it

install from source instructions desired

2020-12-14 Thread Roger Pack via curl-library
Hello. Today attempting to download/install curl "from source" I went to the source on github. The readme says "download the source" tthen the install https://curl.se/docs/install.html has a section "build from git" but it was so small somehow I missed it. The header size isn't as big as unix

Re: libcurl read-llike interface.

2020-12-14 Thread XSLT2.0 via curl-library
> For a zero-copy API, I figure the application would somehow provide the buffer first and then the callback would be done and tell the application when (a piece of) the buffer has been populated. Exactly! You are right "zero-copy" or rather "caller provided buffers" won't generally make things

Re: time to remove Visual Studio project files?

2020-12-14 Thread Tomalak Geret'kal via curl-library
On 14/12/2020 08:25, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote: > On Sat, 5 Sep 2020, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote: > >> I'd like to get a better feel for the need to ship the >> visual studio project files we currently host in the >> project/ directory. > > We're now three months later and

Re: libcurl read-llike interface.

2020-12-14 Thread Tomalak Geret'kal via curl-library
On 14/12/2020 16:35, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote: > On Mon, 14 Dec 2020, XSLT2.0 via curl-library wrote:  > >> It is also pretty un-optimised: the write callback could >> be called multiple times in a multi_perform cycle. > > There's this saying about premature optimization... You

Re: libcurl read-llike interface.

2020-12-14 Thread Daniel Stenberg via curl-library
On Mon, 14 Dec 2020, XSLT2.0 via curl-library wrote: we don't get any feedback and nobody writes any pull requests for it. The code is obviously incomplete, which helps a lot understanding things because it is "short enough", but does probably not encourage to write PR? That would explain

libcurl read-llike interface.

2020-12-14 Thread XSLT2.0 via curl-library
>   https://github.com/curl/fcurl Many thanks Daniel, that was extremely helpful for me to better understand the "multi - select" way of doing thing. > It has been untouched for years since nobody seems to use it, > we don't get any feedback and nobody writes any pull requests for it. The

Re: time to remove Visual Studio project files?

2020-12-14 Thread Daniel Stenberg via curl-library
On Sat, 5 Sep 2020, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote: I'd like to get a better feel for the need to ship the visual studio project files we currently host in the project/ directory. We're now three months later and I *still* want to do this. The PR is here: