On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 03:47:01PM +0100, Rick van Rein <r...@openfortress.nl> wrote: > The ideal is to run this pthread_yield() once per thread, just before > returning to poll() — calling it from every callback function is
And just before anybody reads this mail out of context - pthread_yield will *not* give other threads opportunity to run in general, anywhere, and on some systems (e.g. GNU/Linux) will temporarily give your thread lowest priority in the system. You really do not want to implement this hack. > This stuff is fun :-D It's actually a bit painful... > It’s a pitty libev doesn’t do all this yet though; it feels like a > natural extension to me. libev doesn't do that because it is horribly inefficient and broken by design - libev shouldn't enforce an inefficient model, but allow users to implement efficient ones themselves. -- The choice of a Deliantra, the free code+content MORPG -----==- _GNU_ http://www.deliantra.net ----==-- _ generation ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / schm...@schmorp.de -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ _______________________________________________ libev mailing list libev@lists.schmorp.de http://lists.schmorp.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libev