Will the real sqUnixSocket.c step forward?

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Fri May 10 16:39:36 UTC 2002


goran.hultgren at bluefish.se wrote:
> Nevin Pratt <nevin at smalltalkpro.com> wrote:
> > So far I haven't noticed any hiccups, on either FreeBSD (Intel) or 
> > RedHat Linux.  It seems to work fine.
> > 
> > So, what advantage would taking the time to build again (thus using 
> > Ian's updates) bring?
> > 
> > Nevin
> 
> Well, if you don't have any problems then I don't think you need to
> bother. :-)
> 
> The new version might perform slightly better I guess. One problem was
> that the SF version (and Ian's last version) busylooped sometimes in the
> Socket code. This starved out other Squeak Processes on the same
> priority.
> 

It's fixed on SF, too -- in fact a day or two before Ian's new version
was posted.  But the real answer is that Ian's file will probably
replace the SF one, as soon as Ian finds time to do an integration. 
(I'd be happy to help with the integration, but I'm not sure what I can
do!)

-Lex



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