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by meguest 2788 days ago
> epoll is bad

Source please! I'm genuine - what is bad about it?
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masklinn 2788 days ago
https://idea.popcount.org/2017-02-20-epoll-is-fundamentally-... and https://idea.popcount.org/2017-03-20-epoll-is-fundamentally-... is a pretty good baseline.
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kjeetgill 2788 days ago
It comes up all the time but I'm not qualified to speak to it off the top of my head.

Google comparisons with kqueue from BSD and iocp on Windows.

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