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Re: [Chicken-users] Threads, and async
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Christian Kellermann |
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Re: [Chicken-users] Threads, and async |
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Thu, 21 Jul 2016 08:38:08 +0200 |
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* Josh Barrett <address@hidden> [160721 02:57]:
> Firstly, are chicken's SRFI-18 "green threads" pre-emptive, or do you have
> to explicitly yield in order for the next scheduled thread to run?
Yes they are preemptive.
> Secondly, does Chicken have any libraries for libev/uv event-based
> programming?
I am not aware of any.
> Thirdly, are there chicken bindings for select/poll?
There's the epoll egg, support for select/poll is part of the posix
unit. CHICKEN's scheduler itself is a poll loop basically.
http://api.call-cc.org/doc/posix#sec:file-select
http://api.call-cc.org/doc/epoll
> No, I don't intend to use these all at once, but they seemed related, so I
> figured I would write one big email instead of three small ones.
No worries!
HTH,
Christian
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