On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 6:56 AM, Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com> wrote:

Yotam Barnoy <yotambarnoy@gmail.com> writes:

> Out of curiosity, what polling mechanism is available on the lwt side?

I believe Lwt supports multiple event loops underneath, including libuv
to get whatever polling the OS supports.

Yes, by default Lwt has a backend using Unix.select, and a libev one if

available at compile time (`opam install conf-libev`)

. At runtime Lwt will use the Unix.select backend by default, except if it was configured to choose the libev one (the default on Linux) [1].

There is also a backend using the glib main loop, for GTK applications

[1]

https://github.com/ocsigen/lwt/blob/master/_oasis#L88

Jeremie