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| -rw-r--r-- | ev.pod | 5 |
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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. |