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They smirk at epoll but are happy with IOCP? That seems... unlikely to me.
by fzzzy 9y ago
They smirk at epoll but are happy with IOCP? That seems... unlikely to me.
- dijit 9y agoI don't know, like I said, I'm not a developer myself, however I thought epoll was universally criticised for being poor. I researched a little after I was told (while pushing linux) that things like epoll were why they would never use it. I did manage to convince them to write their storage backend on FreeBSD because that uses kqueues and has ZFS. https://idea.popcount.org/2017-02-20-epoll-is-fundamentally-broken-12/ https://idea.popcount.org/2017-02-20-epoll-is-fundamentally-...