Re: poll() vs select()

[Zach Brown]

> But poll() copies in HUGE amounts of data compared to the few bytes for
> thousands of FDs that select does.

but the size of the select() mask is dependant on the highest numbered fd
that we care about, rather than the number of fds we actually care about.
this becomes highly uncool in a mondo threaded server that shares fd space
:)

-- zach

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