[hunchentoot-devel] COMET with Hunchentoot?

[Slawek Zak]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Hans Hübner <hans.huebner at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 22:01, Jim Prewett <download at hpc.unm.edu> wrote:
>
> > I'm not quite sure what I'm after except that the buzzword seems to be
> > "COMET".
>
...

> The cleanest way to implement a high performance I/O multiplexing
> framework that could be used by Hunchentoot would be by implementing
> multiplexed socket streams using coroutines.  Obviously, that would
> require a coroutine library, and I am not aware of such a thing.
>

Don't you think that having separate thread handling comet would be simpler?
I/O multiplexing to the clients with some sort of message queueing API for
requests from the app engine would be sufficient to make it work? The only
obstacle for multiplexed I/O is lack of portable non-blocking I/O library.

/S
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