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. In fact, this design is worse
> than the average for first-time POE users.
[He then called my model fundamentally broken in private mail and the
documentation rude and unprofessional, without bringing up any evidence]
In all fairness, I want to point out that, after _multiple_ rounds of
longish e-mail exchanges, Rocco Caputo could not solve the problems that
forced AnyEvent to use this design, nor did he enlighten me on how to work
around the specific problems that I mentioned to him that forced this
design decision(*).
He did not come up with any further evidence for a problem, either (just
repeatedly stating that the design is broken. The only argument he brought
up was: one of your design goals is to be reasonably efficient, POE does
not do it reasonably efficient, so your design is broken, which is an
outright absurd logic).
In fact, it seems his problem is indeed the AnyEvent API and not the
interface module to POE, i.e. the "broken" means I should not provide
events in the form AnyEvent does, which is of course counterproductive to
the goal of AnyEvent of being compatible to multiple event loops (I can't
provide different APIs to different event loops...).
So I conclude that even the POE author is unable to provide a (strongly)
more efficient approach, which, according to his own words, would make him
worse then the average first-time POE user.
This is absurd, so I conclude that the original claim has been disproven.
(And yes, I did ask multiple times to come up with how to better design
the interface to POE, or how to solve the lifetime-issues with POE).
(*) the specific problems are (taken directly from my mail to rocco):
- the session must not go away, or there must be an easy way to recreate
it when the kernel kills it.
- the session itself must not keep the kernel "alive"/running (preferably
without going away).
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