aran.donohue: > That's very interesting. I only brought it up because I'm thinking about the > upcoming problems of real-time web application servers. > > I'm sure many people have seen this blog post and Dons's replies: > http://www.codexon.com/posts/debunking-the-erlang-and-haskell-hype-for-servers > > The Haskell code codexon used isn't the best Haskell can do. But I think it's > the clearest, most obvious code---the most like what someone learning from the > ground up would try first. Ideally, it should run fast by default, and it's > too > bad that you need to learn about bytestrings (and choose between lazy vs. > strict), the various utf8 encoding options, and a new event library to make it > perform. Since I'm basically a beginner to Haskell, if I were to set out to > test out a WebSocket server in Haskell, my first pass code would probably look > a lot like the codexon template. I certainly wouldn't want to go multi-process > nor explicitly manage cores within a single process. I would want forkIO to > just work.
Would you write the Python solution though, as a naive Python user? It's scripting epoll-- which is a pretty specialized use. Anyway, I encourage people to use the event lib, even before the forkIO support is merged in. It's a lot of fun, http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/playing-with-the-new-haskell-epoll-event-library/ Maybe Johan and Bryan can give us an update on the state of play? What's the ETA to commiting into HEAD? -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe