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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Performance techniques used in AWS
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:18:11 +0100
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"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:

> Le Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:40:15 +0200, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
> a écrit:
>> I guess the performance will depend heavily on select(2) vs poll(2) or
>> epoll.
> According to this
> http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/libevent-benchmarks.jpg
> and that
> http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/libevent-benchmark2s.jpg
> epoll and kqueue are the more efficient

I see that libev[ent] abstracts away the actual polling mechanism, which
is good. Of course, what mechanism you can actually use depends on the
OS: I think epoll is a Linux-specific service? - certainly no sign of it
on this Mac.