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Re: Patches for poll-based NSRunLoop
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Jonathan B. Leffert |
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Re: Patches for poll-based NSRunLoop |
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Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:21:13 -0800 |
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Mutt/1.2i |
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 10:17:28AM +0000, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> I think I said 'almost trivial' - but that's from the point of view
> of someone who has been writing unix comms related software since before
> either select() or poll() existed (around 20 years), and is very familiar
> with NSRunLoop ... so I guess 'straightforward' may be more appropriate.
Please forgive, then, what is probably a naive question. What is the
purpose of this patch? Does poll generally scale better than select or is
it that poll has a more straightforward api?
Jonathan
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