Ticket #635 "Replace use of select() in the I/O manager with epoll/kqueue/etc." (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/635) dates back from 2005. Now its 2009 and GHC can handle hundreds of thousands of threads, yet having more than 1024 file descriptors open is still impossible. This limitation is a real bottle neck and prevents some cool developments on server side, like scalable comet servers. Instead others (e.g. Erlang guys) post stories about how they achived 1 million comet users (cf. http://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-application-with-mochiweb-part-1/ ).
Hence my question - is it likely that GHC will support epoll in 2009? Cheers and happy new year! - Levi _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
