[Twisted-Python] eta for an epoll reactor?

Count László de Almásy calmasy at gmail.com
Sun Oct 29 00:36:07 EDT 2006


Yes, you're right.  Beggars can't be choosers I guess.  :)

On 10/27/06, Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:02:38 -0600, Count László de Almásy <calmasy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >On 10/27/06, Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
> >>As of earlier this week (or maybe last week, I forget), there is a
> >>epoll-based level-triggered reactor in trunk at HEAD.  It will be included
> >>in Twisted 2.5.
> >
> >Nice!  How about edge-triggered epoll?
> >
>
> Patches accepted :)  Level-triggered already buys quite a lot over poll.
> I expect edge-triggered is even better, but I don't think I have any apps
> where I'd notice the difference (it's probably not likely I'd notice the
> difference between poll and epoll, actually), so I probably won't be spending
> any time on this in the near future.
>
> Edge-triggered shares a lot less code with the existing reactors.  Maybe
> some of the recent IOCP work will be leveragable to this goal, though.
>
> Jean-Paul
>
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Cheers, László




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