Re: Continuing work on 'with-poll' (feature/more-fds)

[Stefan Kangas]

Jonathon McKitrick via "Emacs development discussions."
<emacs-devel@gnu.org> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 01:28:38PM -0400, chad wrote:
>
> : quite a while back) the mac port used some significantly different internal
> : machinery around select that _I would guess_ has a big impact in this area,
>
> I haven't poked around OS internals in a long time, so I'm not sure if I 
> should
> start with understanding the 'select' machinery and work outwards, or start 
> with
> CIDER's failed nrepl connection and work inward. I could try the carbon port
> and compare.

I'd start with reading the past discussions about this in the mailing
list archive, reading the source code on the branch, etc.  Maybe start
with the thread "1024 file descriptors should be enough for anyone".

Thanks for your interest in working on this.