On Jan 8, 2016, at 1:15 PM, Hefty, Sean <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> As a discussion item for the next ofiwg, the topic has come up (again) about 
> supporting other operating systems, specifically Windows and Solaris.

I would imagine that supporting Solaris with the configury/build/sockets 
providers wouldn't be too difficult...?

I don't know much about Windows to comment on it.

> At least two development teams have asked about support outside of Linux.  
> The desire is to code only to libfabric, with it dealing with differences in 
> the underlying interfaces.  This is partially driven by the socket provider 
> support inside libfabric, which allows for applications to remove their 
> support for sockets.
> 
> This in turn is driving the need for the sockets provider to focus on 
> performance and scalability, rather than just functionality, which was the 
> original goal.

Is it worth forking the sockets provider -- one for "simple" correctness (and 
not performance), and another optimized provider for sockets?

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