At 18:53 Uhr -0800 09.11.1999, Raab, Andreas wrote:
>John & Craig,
>
>>  > I think performance will suffer if the Squeak VM continues
>>  to poll for socket events.
>>
>>  But it doesn't poll. It waits on a semaphore for either some change
>>  of socket status or a timeout, whichever comes first.
>
>This is a misunderstanding on both sides. The current socket interface does
>not imply polling since it is controlled by semaphores (correct part of
>John) *but* the current implementations of the socket primitives on
>Windows/Unix use polling on the VM level (correct part of Craig).

At least for Unix that is not quite correct either :-)

In an interactive image polling is used, in a headless server the 
primitives are in effect event driven.

Georg
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