Re: Using emacs 'with-poll'

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 23:19:37 +0000, Jonathon McKitrick via Users list for 
>>>>> the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> said:

    Jonathon> I'm experimenting with the 'with-poll' branch of emacs 30 on an 
M1 mbp.
    Jonathon> Where is the discussion of this feature? Is it supposed to be a 
'drop in'
    Jonathon> replacement for poll() in emacs?

Itʼs supposed to be a drop in replacement for 'select' to get around
its 1024 open file descriptors limitation which can bite hard
(especially on macOS).

    Jonathon> I don't see a difference except when using CIDER and Clojure, 
when I see
    Jonathon> the connection seem to hang. I've emailed the original 
contributor,
    Jonathon> but haven't gotten a reply yet. Does anyone know about this 
feature?

Iʼm guessing CIDER uses subprocesses, which need some further work in
the branch.

Iʼm rebasing the branch onto 'master' and testing it again. Ping me in
a week (although here is not really the right list to talk about
Emacs feature development, we have emacs-devel for that).

Robert
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