Re: Timings for optimised poll(2)
Darren Reed (darrenr@cyber.com.au)
Sun, 24 Aug 1997 16:41:22 +1000 (EST)
In some mail I received from Rogier Wolff, sie wrote
>
> Richard Gooch wrote:
> > Timings for 1021 file descriptors on a Pentium 100. These numbers look
> > quite promising!
>
> My computer (*) scans 10000 (tenthousand) bits in 15 us. Now
> what were you trying to optimize?
[...]
> t = find_first_zero_bit (p, size);
[...]
Sorry, didn't see the code for this subroutine in your E-mail and can't
verify that claim myself.
That optimised search is not what 101 programs out there have, nor is it,
I suspect, going to be as portable as using the FD_* calls such as FD_ZERO,
FD_ISSET, etc.