On Mon, 02 Jan 2023, Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions <guile-user@gnu.org> wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jan 2023, Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: >> Maxime Devos <maximede...@telenet.be> writes: >> >>>> epoll is as I understand it linux only so that's not a reasonable >>>> dependency. fibers now works with libevent which wraps multiple >>>> faclilities and is thus pretty portable. >>> >>> Guile-Fibers still uses epoll on Linux, on other systems it uses libevent. >> >> Understood - I just meant that fibers is now (at least 99% of the way) >> to "broadly portable". >> >> I don't know the details of Olivier's question and libevent, but would >> suggest that libevent does the sort of things that are needed and is the >> standard portable approach and is thus worth a hard look as the >> presumptive right answer, absent something better that only relies on >> what POSIX requires (and what's on Hurd :-). > > Hmm from a description I see on Guix, libev has relative timers. I > don't know if it's portable like libevent though. Will look at both > thanks!
Well from my reading, it might be interesting to have a guile-libev. -- Olivier Dion oldiob.dev
