Re: nsrunloop is not using select?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 23 Jan 2007, at 07:55, Rogelio Serrano wrote:

> whats the best for linux?

I think poll() is better on linux (and probably pretty much all  
modern platforms), but that's probably an issue to argue on kernel  
mailing lists.
> i just skimmed the sources. so nsonnection is the delegate for nsport.
> is that correct?

Yes.  It generally manages ports and handles port messages.
> > A multithreaded connection is one where the same port is added to the
> > runloops of multiple threads.  The thread safety issues make it less
> > efficient than single threaded connections.
>
> wow its a little hard to wrap my little brain around that but i think
> i have a use for that.
>
> so is this is different from running a connection in a different  
> thread then.

No, it's the same thing as using a single connection in two  
threads ... you tell the connection it is being used in more than one  
thread so it knows to do the locking etc to be thread safe.