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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: epoll Ada binding
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:35:59 +0200
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* Mark Lorenzen:

> I think you have to write your own. But do you really need epoll? It
> is not POSIX compatable and only necessary when you have many (over
> 10000) concurrent connections.

epoll shows its effect far below the 10,000 concurrent connection
level.  It also allows for programming styles that are difficult to
replicate with other I/O multiplexing system calls.  For example, the
leader/followers pattern is in this category (IIRC).