Re: [Haskell-cafe] Optimizing a high-traffic network architecture

Einar Karttunen writes:

To matters nontrivial all the *nix variants use a different more efficient replacement for poll.

Solaris has /dev/poll *BSD (and OS X) has kqueue Linux has epoll

Since this is 'cafe, here's a page has some performance testing of epoll: http://lse.sourceforge.net/epoll/

Thus e.g. not all linux machines will have epoll.

It is present in 2.6, but not 2.4? -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants