[slime-devel] Why not use system:add-fd-handler in cmucl?

Håkon Alstadheim haalst at online.no
Fri Dec 12 15:23:39 UTC 2003


I wrote:
> The create-swank-server function in swank-cmucl.lisp has been changed
> from doing:
> 
>   (system:add-fd-handler fd :input #'accept-connection)
> 
> into just doing:
> 
>   (accept-connection fd)
> 
> 
> This means one must enable multi-processing to run slime. I /think/
> the former method is more efficient, but I guess that's marginal. The
> fact that local set up can more easily break slime is a real downside
> though. So what's the upside to this change?

Follow-up to my own post :-) "must enable" wrong, but the
*inferior-lisp* becomes unuseable with the switch, so the question
still stands.




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