Re: Five Reasons Why Synchronous Networking Is Bad
Re: Five Reasons Why Synchronous Networking Is Bad
- Subject: Re: Five Reasons Why Synchronous Networking Is Bad
- From: Joel Reymont <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 16:20:31 +0000
On Mar 5, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Quinn wrote:
I wouldn't say that either of these is completely true, at least not
yet. Certainly, CFSocket extracts a performance penalty on current
system software and, if you're goal is the absolute best
performance, dropping down to the BSD sockets level is definitely
the best choice.
I can't help but chime in. Using select is suboptimal when the number
of monitored file descriptors goes above 1k or so. I wish the code
behind CFSocket used kqueue and kevents instead.
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