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From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: I like the epoll interface
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:34:39 +0100
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David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> writes:
> On Jul 15, 12:58 pm, Rainer Weikusat <rweiku...@mssgmbh.com> wrote:
>> I just felt like writing this. It's very nice to work with
>> something which was developed with reasonable performance and ease of
>> use in mind, as opposed to either 'How can we provide a facility which
>> mostly works with the least amount of new kernel code' (UNIX(*)) or
>> 'Make it FAST on a VAX !!1' (BSD).
>
> I agree, but IOCP is even better.

While I cannot claim any experience with that, the integrated thread
management would rarely do what I want to do in this respect.