On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 08:13:27AM -0400, Rocco Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> each event watcher. Anyone who knows POE can tell you this is one of
> the least efficient designs possible.
It is the only design that I could get working, even after consulting a
few people and implementing some workarounds for the bugs in POE.
In any case, you have to consider that most people on this planet
don't know POE, and even if, they don't know it that well. Since the
documentation for POE is in such a bad state, thats the obvious way to fix
that.
> In fact, this design is worse than the average for first-time POE users.
If a better design is possible, it is not known to me, and you haven't
suggested one either, so talk is cheap. I'd be happy to get a more
efficient design for POE but nobody could come up with one that also
worked reliably through multiple iterations of run and also does not keep
the POE kernel from returning.
If a better design *is* possible (which I don't really doubt), then it
needs to be vastly more complex, or it needs some non-obvious trick. I can
only imagine making some very complex on-demand instantiating and re-check
wether the session still exists on each watcher creation.
(It is possible that I was fooled by the docs as well, so if there is a
better way, it likely isn't documented, so who could blame me).
Instead of going around and accuse people of making bad designs, it would
be much better to improve the documentation for POE, so that said people
don't have to go around and start guessing...
Oh, and while you fix the docs, could you fix the other bugs as well (the
race condition with sigchld is really annoying, and the nag messages are
as well).
> I have specific issues with your docs. As a courtesy to you and the
> list, I'll send them to you directly.
Not sure why it would be a courtesy to me, do you have anything to hide
or do you want to insult me even more in private so nobody sees your real
self or something? (just guessing... :)
I do fix my bugs and am open to suggestions and improvements. But
correctness comes first, performance second.
Greetings,
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