[gambit-list] UDP

Adam adam.mlmb at gmail.com
Fri Aug 11 14:28:21 EDT 2017


Guillaume,

For completeness - when there are userland ports, implementing UDP as a
module will be trivial.

For more info see here https://github.com/gambit/gambit/issues/288 .

Adam

2017-08-09 19:10 GMT+02:00 Dimitris Vyzovitis <vyzo at hackzen.org>:

> > Regarding #2
>
> Yes, I implemented raw devices exactly for this reason.
> Gamsock could use the socket ffi from Gerbil to provide the same interface
> but integrated with the Gambit i/o scheduler,
>
> -- vyzo
>
> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Guillaume Cartier <gcartier at jazzscheme.org
> > wrote:
>
>> Hey Jeff,
>>
>> I really like what I saw when I browsed Gamsock's code. The code looks
>> clean and well implemented.
>>
>> The two things I see missing, correct me if I'm wrong are:
>>
>> #1 Cross-platform support, mainly Windows
>> #2 Some way to block on reading the UDP port that is integrated with the
>> Gambit scheduler
>>
>> Regarding #1, it seems a bit wasteful to have to implement cross-platform
>> sockets as it is already done in Gambit's low-level C code, so maybe some
>> collaboration with Marc into exposing this code in some way
>>
>> Regarding #2, my understanding is that Marc added raw-device ports a
>> while ago to help vyzo do exactly that in Gerbil
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Jeff Read <bitwize at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Gamsock maintainer here. Does Gamsock somehow not fit your needs? I'm
>>> open to bug reports or feature requests.
>>>
>>> On Aug 3, 2017 7:56 AM, "Guillaume Cartier" <gcartier at jazzscheme.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> What is the current state of UDP in Gambit?
>>>>
>>>> I found
>>>> - an old post where Marc says he has preliminary support and
>>>> - https://github.com/bitwize/gamsock which looks interesting but
>>>> hasn't been updated in years
>>>>
>>>> Anything else available if I need to integrate UDP in my Gambit
>>>> application?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
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