Re: [Chicken-users] critical-section not in Chicken 3?

[Elf]

On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Tobia Conforto wrote:

> <snip>
> A bold statement, but I kind of agree.  Except maybe for when you seek to 
> simulate many random, unpredictable, asynchronous processes, threads are just 
> a quick hack.  A hand-crafted, event-based solution is usually more 
> efficient, easier to get right and much easier to debug.
>
> If you lack the needed OS primitives (select, non-blocking I/O, etc.) or if 
> you need to cope with a bad OS, then threads might be the only way to go, but 
> those are cases that call for ugly hacks anyway.
>
> What is it you couldn't do in the raw-sockets egg without threads?

because there is the possibility of multiple raw sockets with reading and 
writing synchronisation issues and the need for Very High (TM) throughput. 
i will upload the changed code to the repo for your inspection.  suffice it
to say that we tried every means both bk2 and i could think of and this was 
the only solution that worked for this problem domain.

-elf