Hi, Erik

Very good, and it's my pleasure to have same thoughts with you:)

By the way, I should publish some news:

For the local binding patch, I've get contacted with the CMUCL maintainer (Raymond Toy), and we were still talking about the local- bind-patch on CMUCL mailing list. I think it's possible to merge my CMUCL patch.

For the UDP patch [1,2] (which the first reason I go into your life), Now I have a portable UDP server code. It's quite easy to wrote using UDP local-binding, wait-for-input, and socket-receive/socket-send. I don't know when you'll have time to look it and merge it, but I can wait:)

--binghe

[1] 
https://cl-net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cl-net-snmp/usocket-udp/trunk
[2] http://www.cliki.net/usocket-udp

在 2008-7-23,下午9:06, Erik Huelsmann 写道:

I think one of the design idea of usocket is just not use CFFI, and any non-lisp code. IOlib is another approach of Lisp networking, it has some C
wrapper code to be used with CFFI.

Yes, basically I agree.

Use select() or pool() will cause non_OS-portable code and other
difficulties. I suggest not use them directly... usocket should keep it
simple, and shouldn't depends on CFFI, or any other ASDF package.

And here, I agree too. However, some people have suggested that
usocket could incorporate an alternative backend which is built
'closer to the OS', for example using CFFI.

Even though I will not be building such a backend myself, I can
definitely see why anyone would want to create it. And as such, when a
maintainer pops up for the task, I'll happily integrate the
contribution (and sustained maintenance!) into the project.

I hope that we may see a contribution like this some time in the
future (ie a contribution specifically targetted at performance).

Bye,

Erik.

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