Re: Unexpectedly low read/write performance of open-pipe

[Mark H Weaver]

Chris Vine <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 09 Apr 2019 04:35:38 -0400
> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> I think it's probably fine for 2.2, although a more careful check should
>> be made for differences in behavior between the old and new
>> implementations, and tests should be added.  I'll try to get to it soon.
>
> If it is going in 2.2 (or 3.0) it would be nice if the ports could be
> suspendable.  put-bytevector (used by write!) is suspendable;
> get-bytevector-some (used by read!) is not.

In my previous message, I forgot to mention that I don't believe my
patch would introduce a regression here, because the old implementation
of 'open-pipe*' in OPEN_BOTH mode _also_ used a kind of custom port
implemented in C, namely Guile's old "soft ports".

That said, I certainly agree that it would be good to make more I/O
operations suspendable, and to make custom ports suspendable as well.

       Mark