Re: proposal about glib

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+gtk mega-nerd com>]

yangyang hexun com wrote:

> 1）I use glib's main event loop, but why glib's main event loop don't
> support epoll/kqueue?
> 
> The poll/select func's efficiency is very poor.

<lurk mode="off">

Do you have any pointers to studies that measure the relative
performance? The only one I can find is this one (admittedly
a little old):

    http://www.gelato.org/pdf/Illinois/gelato_IL2004_epoll_brecht.pdf

which shows select slightly ahead when there are less than 10000
file descriptors.

</lurk>

Cheers,
Erik
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