From 7090db9e0e0fdaef6c8275a01efabb37e9c27bb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: root Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 02:48:45 +0000 Subject: *** empty log message *** --- ev.pod | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'ev.pod') diff --git a/ev.pod b/ev.pod index 20cda37..9fb616d 100644 --- a/ev.pod +++ b/ev.pod @@ -420,6 +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 is as fast or faster +then epoll for maybe up to a hundred file descriptors. So sad. + While nominally embeddable in other event loops, this feature is broken in all kernel versions tested so far. -- cgit v1.2.3