I notice that select is a bit of a bottleneck in the non-threaded RTS
once lots of sockets are in play. Between kernel and userspace, many a
cycle are wasted once we go past a few hundred clients. On some
operating systems, the fixed nature of fd_set imposes a surprisingly low
ceiling on the maximum number of concurrently open file descriptors.
I gather there's some kind of longish-term plan to build a more
pluggable RTS, but it seems like a nearer-term solution could be
implemented relatively cheaply, and wouldn't conflict with the ultimate
goal.
Would the GHC team be interested in receiving a patch that replaced
select, where possible, with an operating system's native, and hopefully
faster, event wait mechanism?
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