On 2003.11.17, Jim Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glad somebody noticed the new code :) The changes to kick of 4.1 were in two > areas: > > 1. Adding an I/O event callback interface for connections before they > are queued for processing (called "pre-queue"). The interface is a > bit tricky to use and there's no documentation or example module > (yet). The general idea is to enable efficient pre-fetch of remote > resources prior to running the connection, keeping the connection > threads from stalling on I/O. For the ordinary nssock module, there > should be no impact. For the SSL module, reads are now handled by > special reader threads, not the connection threads. This may require > moving some state from thread to connection and/or socket local > storage.
Does this mean that it'll be easy to add non-HTTP request processors into 4.1? Basically, now we can again define I/O handlers that can understand non-HTTP connections, right? > 2. Adding a new interp tracing API to allows us to further cleanup and > simplify the overly complex and clunky Tcl initialization process. > Again, just the C API here -- no example module yet. Jim, when are you going to implement Tcl_CloneInterp()? :-) > These changes are in some core areas so the code is marked as an > "alpha" version right now -- beware! :) I assume the code at least builds and runs still, right? :-P Guess it's time to do a 'cvs up' ... -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70) -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
