Niels Provos <provos () citi ! umich ! edu> wrote:
> I just released a new version of libevent that supports Linux new
> epoll mechanism; see
>
> http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
>
> The page contains some performance comparisons for different event
> notification mechanisms.
Very cool. This will probably be quite useful for many users.
BTW, Niels should perhaps mention that only the new,
level-triggered version of sys_epoll is supported.
> The library supports platform independent high performance network
> applications. It chooses the fastest notification mechansims
> supported by the operating system.
That may not be *quite* true. Davide and I feel the edge-triggered
version of sys_epoll can be slightly faster than the level-triggered version.
Niels disagrees, but presumably a benchmark could be arranged to
settle the question. Of course, after Davide and I win the
argument :-), Niels will say "but the level-triggered version is easier to use",
and he'll be mostly right.
I'm stuck in /dev/epoll-land for a while, but one of these days,
maybe I'll do that benchmark.
- Dan
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