I am just porting squeak/Etoys to Samsung-PAD and i noticed some strange
things:
In Pharo 1.1 network connections seemed to be limited to 4 connections:
In the listenLoop backlogSize is set to 4. Means - Pharo is limited to
max. of four simultaneous TCP Connections?
But: Some MacIntel VM seem to run Squeak with additional worker thread
for event processing. Maybe this limitation may not occur here?
Carbon ports of Pharo use ioPeekKeystroke, ioGetKeystroke, ioMousePoint,
ioGetButtonState instead of
kEventRawKeyModifiersChanged and kEventMouseMoved event
Found in Pharo so far:
isDraggingEvent
isDropEvent
isEditEvent
isKbdEvent
isMorphicEvent
isNoteEvent
isTempoEvent
isWindowEvent
Hmmm ... quite a lot of events being polled:
Need additional:
isOnMouseOverEvent
isMouseGestureEvent
isTouchGestureEvent
isNetworkEvent
isUSBEvent
isSerialEvent
isParallelPortEvents
isCtrl-C-Event
...
I fear, that this costs a lot of wasted VM Power by polling. UNIX,
especially Linux is changing towards a event machine, driven by
interrupts. So - Interpreters should also migrated from polling to
interrupt driven event-machines.
I am missing that in Pharo. Pharo still has too much polling
code/algorithm running, that slows down Pharo/Squeak/Etoys ...
unneccessarily.
Any ideas appreciated ...
tnx, regards
Guido Stepken
