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authorroot <root>2008-11-05 03:52:15 +0000
committerroot <root>2008-11-05 03:52:15 +0000
commit05f2c37dd57b22c5a8caef2a2ab57bf5ec448087 (patch)
treefa315ba92f097c10999e8770477ea2a629e57c67
parent7090db9e0e0fdaef6c8275a01efabb37e9c27bb8 (diff)
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@@ -420,8 +420,9 @@ extra overhead. A fork can both result in spurious notifications as well
as in libev having to destroy and recreate the epoll object, which can
take considerable time and thus should be avoided.
-All this means that, in practise, C<EVBACKEND_SELECT> is as fast or faster
-then epoll for maybe up to a hundred file descriptors. So sad.
+All this means that, in practise, C<EVBACKEND_SELECT> can be as fast or
+faster then epoll for maybe up to a hundred file descriptors, depending on
+the usage. So sad.
While nominally embeddable in other event loops, this feature is broken in
all kernel versions tested so far.