From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 23:12:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move sleep_millisec to git-compat-util.h
Message-ID: <xmqqy2ipav5k.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <018301d6c371$37bf6820$a73e3860$@nexbridge.com>

"Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:

> I just chatted with my team and we think that sticking with the existing
> poll call is probably better in the long term. We are planning to try to get
> git to work using PUT threads - but that is a longer project for a whole
> slew of reasons. It involves pulling all or most of the FLOSS stuff out, or
> making that configurable to use FLOSS when not using threads and not using
> FLOSS when using threads. It might be useful, however, to use usleep()
> instead of poll(NULL) when threading is used on most platforms as it is a
> more effective way of context switching between threads than select().

Yeah, if usleep() is portable enough, that would probably be the
ideal direction to go.