On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 00:26 -0800, Andreas Raab wrote:
> Robert F. Scheer wrote:
> > I forgot to be very clear about this in the last post, there is one main
> > reason why C would have no trouble keeping these loops all serviced.
> > 
> > The reads would block.  While waiting for the first byte of a packet to
> > come in for the next cycle, no processing cycles would be consumed.  No
> > delays inside loops would be needed.  
> 
> I see. Well, if you'd be willing to throw a couple of native threads at 
> the problem to service these lines, you could deal with the problem 
> easily simply by writing the blocking read in C and have that (once it 
> reads the data) signal a semaphore in Squeak which makes the associated 
> Squeak process wake up and retrieve and process the data you just read.
> 
> Cheers,
>    - Andreas
> 
> 

I can do it this way, sure.  Just have to figure out how to do the
signalling and interprocess communication.  Would you use sockets for
the ipc?