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by lloeki 1132 days ago
does it use anything specific on darwin and/or freebsd or does it fall back to libev?
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ciconia 1132 days ago
On non-Linux systems it just uses libev to for I/O readiness and for timers, and uses normal syscalls for the actual I/O.
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lloeki 1131 days ago
alright! any plans to use kqueue directly?
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ciconia 1131 days ago
No. libev provides a nice abstraction over different operating systems, and has good performance. I don't think coding a whole new backend against kqueue is worth the effort.
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