On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:16 AM, David T. Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you talking about signaling the image when an IO event happens? > If so, see http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3384. The plugin is included > in standard unix VMs.
I did a quick peek, if not perfect, it might be of much help. On positive side: - it allows for async work with files and sockers On might be improved side: - it depends on select call which in it self is not perfect for large number of file descriptors (like thousand(s)) - it seems to require Smalltalk process for each file desciptor, and ProcessScheduler might also not be happy with thousands of smalltalk processe - unix only. Anyway, even so: - it will still probably be much better than synchronous way of doing things. - it might be used to experiment, design and prototype nice callback based API on the Smalltalk side. Thanks! Davorin Rusevljan http://www.cloud208.com/
