[Ecls-list] Next step with MSVC

Robin Lee Powell rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org
Thu Aug 7 18:20:55 UTC 2008


On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 08:15:16PM +0200, Julian Stecklina wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 03:24:44PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell
> > wrote:
> >> > Better alternatives are (depending on your use case) e.g.
> >> > osicat or usocket.
> >> 
> >> Thanks.  For some reason I thought usocket didn't have a way to
> >> do non-blocking I/O.  I see that I was wrong.
> >
> > Oh, it's waiting with a timeout that it doesn't do, sort of.  (I
> > know it's in trunk.)  That's OK; sub-1-second sleep seems to
> > work fine.  :)
> 
> The CL world is missing a portable high-performance (network) I/O
> framework. :-/

Apparently.

A related question: is there something better than CLOCC for
portable thread management?

-Robin

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