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by zedshaw 5797 days ago
It's an idea I had after actually measuring. If it doesn't work then I tried something out.

What you really should be getting from it though is that epoll is not faster. It is not O(1). It is not faster on smaller vs. larger lists of FDs. Pretty much all the things you were told as advantages of epoll are total crap.

The only advantage of epoll is it's O(N=active) when poll is O(N=total). That's it.

So at a minimum I've done some education and spent some time learning something.

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I tried to make sure I gave lots of reasons that justify your work; I do think it's cool.

I just wanted to say that it is not an unquestionable design decision.

Rock on with the superpoll, I hope it's awesome and very successful.