Re: lynx-dev connect_time patch

[Frédéric L . W . Meunier]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 09:27:22PM +0200, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> > "Leonid Pauzner" <address@hidden> said:
> >
> > > 4-Apr-2003 13:56 Gisle Vanem wrote:
> > >
> > > > Patch in lyutils.c: undef "select" in case Lynx is compiled with
> > > > curses (and not S-Lang). Watt-32's select_s cannot be used on a
> > > > stdin handle, so one must undef it and use djgpp's select().
> > >
> > > BTW, with this only patch, DJGPP compiled lynx lose nearly 50% 
> > > performance,
> > > tested on huge local file. Native DJGPP select() seems too inefficient.
> >
> > That's because Lynx is inefficient in testing stdin for a keypress.
> > It calls select() on the full FD_SETSIZE (255) fds. djgpp's select() does
> > loop over all fd's even only fd 0 is set in readfds (as it should do).
>
> that's true - I've not gotten around to changing it before, since I'm
> puzzled whether it was done to accommodate some (perhaps now-obsolete)
> variation of select() that required that.

The same on Cygwin ? I at least noticed some things run very
slow.

I can see the 'Using
file://localhost/home/fredlwm/tmp/*TMP.html.gz'

when acessing sites like
http://www.elby.ch/en/products/clone_cd/download.html

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