[REBOL] Rugby / TCP woes
From: koopmans::itr::ing::nl at: 27-Nov-2001 12:57
Hi all,
I have had some discussions about adding persistent connections to Rugby.
It may be good to know that I tested this feature for 4.3 but that on an
Ethernet the setup time for /no-wait/direct TCP ports is so short that
reusing connections is actually fourt times slower. I have no clue why!
SOme other news: Rebol seems to be inconsistent in its network behaviour. I
tested on Linux 2.4.x libc6, but Petr runs on 2.2.16 and observes CPU eating.
Shouldn't the same script run the same on all platforms?
Under NT 4 I managed to eat up all CPU if I didn't read alkl bytes on a
server before closing a port. This is fixed in 4.3
My (wild) guess: Rebol puts a small wrapper on TCP/IP stacks in different
OS'es with more and more advanced features, such as non-blocking I/O. As some
platforms/kernels have (different) bugs you see this in Rebol scripts....
--Maarten
