Re: perl IS an event loop (was Re: Speaking of signals...)

[Dan Sugalski]

At 01:02 PM 1/6/01 -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
>that is what i would expect form a simple flag test and every N tests
>doing a full event poll. and even up to 5-10% slowdown i would think is
>a good tradeoff for the flexibilty and ease of design win we get in the
>i/o and event guts. but then, i have always traded off speed for
>flexibility and ease. hey, so has perl! :)

Not always. :) The flexibility really does need to balance out the speed 
hit. (If Nick wasn't in the middle of rewriting the whole IO system, I'd 
probably be assaulting sv_gets to make up for the speed hit I introduced 
way back with the record reading code...)

                                        Dan

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